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“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“All have been anxious for the attentions of someone whom they wished to please.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“The first experimental convinction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.(...)But the real truth is that there never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.”
― Harold Pinter

“(...) sapere che coloro ai quali tu aneli, vi resistono con severa inaccessibilità, fa molto male.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“Tu crois que je pourrais devenir raciste?
Le devenir, c'est possible; tout dépend de l'éducation que tu auras reçue.”
― Tahar Ben Jelloun, Le racisme expliqué à ma fille

“On se sent sans défense face à l'inconnu.”
― Tahar Ben Jelloun, Le racisme expliqué à ma fille

“On est toujours l'étranger de quelqu'un.”
― Tahar Ben Jelloun, Le racisme expliqué à ma fille

“(...) chaque visage est un miracle, unique et inimitable.”
― Tahar Ben Jelloun, Le racisme expliqué à ma fille

“Voyager, c'est aimer, découvrir et apprendre.”
― Tahar Ben Jelloun, Le racisme expliqué à ma fille

“(...) porque en el mundo, (...) todos los que viven sueÑan.”
― Calderón de la Barca, Teatro (Classic Reprint)

“Io sono Arnaud che raccoglie il vento, (...) e nuota contro corrente.”
― Arnaud Danielle

“It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we saw every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed for ever.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants.”
― Peter Ackroyd, The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling

“It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about "a handsome prince"... was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called handsome? As for "a girl who was as beautiful as the day was long"... well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light! The stories don't want you to think, they just wanted you to believe what you were told...”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven.

And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books had no real existence in our world. Like seeds in the beak of a bird waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song laid out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being. they lie dormant hoping for the chance to emerge.They want us to give them life.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“Each man dreams his own heaven.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside. They were both an escape from reality and an alternative reality themselves. They were so old, and so strange, that they had found a kind of existence independent of the pages they occupied. The world of the old tales existed parallel to ours, but sometimes the walls separating the two became so thing and brittle that the two worlds started to blend into each other. That was when the trouble started. That was when the bad things came. That was when the Crooked Man began to appear to David.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things