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“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.”
― Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics

“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
― Anonymous

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.”
― Hermann Hesse

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“What a beautiful name,” Kimberly said. “Does it mean anything? I love multicultural names because they have such wonderful meanings, from wonderful rich cultures.” Kimberly was smiling the kindly smile of people who thought “culture” the unfamiliar colorful reserve of colorful people, a word that always had to be qualified with “rich.” She would not think Norway had a “rich culture.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“There was something immodest about her modesty: it announced itself.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“It was the exaggerated gratitude that came with immigrant insecurity.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“We are very ideological about fiction in this country. If a character is not familiar, then that character becomes unbelievable.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Before, she would have said, "I know," that peculiar American expression that professed agreement rather than knowledge”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“To be a child of the Third World is to be aware of the many different constituencies you have and how honesty and truth must always depend on context.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore