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#1

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

tags: romance

1387 likes

#2

“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
― Shusaku Endo

tags: weakness

1526 likes

#3

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

tags: passion, self-destruction

2054 likes

#4

“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.”
― Cat Cora

2069 likes

#5

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: progress

2234 likes

#6

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
― Lester Bangs

1323 likes

#7

“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

1329 likes

#8

“If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.”
― Iris Johansen, Countdown

1263 likes

#9

“Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

846 likes

#10

“My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”
― Bruno Schulz

982 likes

#11

“I've never wanted a quiet life.”
― Lydia Cacho

853 likes

#12

“He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

tags: boy, cool, girl, successful, try

947 likes

#13

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

tags: forgiveness, hiding-place

2044 likes

#14

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

2023 likes

#15

“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
― Rebecca Makkai

1189 likes

#16

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

1337 likes

#17

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald

5878 likes

#18

“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

1597 likes

#19

“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
― Francesco Petrarch

726 likes

#20

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: books, reading

2497 likes

#21

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

tags: books, literature, reading, words

3792 likes

#22

“Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.”
― Joanna Lumley

944 likes

#23

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings

tags: future, past

952 likes

#24

“I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

tags: mysterious

2059 likes

#25

“Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”
― Juan Rulfo

tags: memory-loss, mortality

996 likes

#26

“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: belief, change, faith, life, magic, universe

1446 likes

#27

“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

tags: evil, monster

1758 likes

#28

“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
― William Trevor

1345 likes

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