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“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
― Edith Wharton

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Just because you didn’t understand something didn’t make it any less significant.”
― Alison Gervais, The Silence Between Us

“Just remember, rain doesn’t seem all that threatening at first, but too much rain can turn into a flood.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk