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“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Dirty old hole, isn't it?"
"The dirt is picturesque so I don't mind.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Poirot did not enter into a controversy. He had already learnt that every single individual had a different version of the theme "What did we fight the war for?”
― Agatha Christie, Taken at the Flood

“Кто мудр, тот для себя отыщет пристань
Везде, где взор Небес над ним сияет.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”
― Horace Walpole, The Letters of Horace Walpole

“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very own skin. Quirrel, full of hatred, greed, and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone