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  • #1
    Walt Whitman
    “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #2
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #3
    Franz Kafka
    “So then you’re free?’
    ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.”
    Franz Kafka, Amerika

  • #4
    Edith Wharton
    “What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
    Edith Wharton

  • #5
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #6
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

  • #7
    Pearl Cleage
    “Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”
    Pearl Cleage, Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot

  • #8
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    Rumi

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    “Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
    Lauren Conrad

  • #11
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
    Jeanette Winterson

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Poets treat their experiences shamelessly: they exploit them”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

  • #14
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #15
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #16
    Leigh Bardugo
    “No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #17
    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made, not the elimination of it.”
    Craig D. Lounsbrough

  • #18
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #19
    Colleen Hoover
    “If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.”
    Colleen Hoover

  • #20
    Sara Naveed
    “I’m . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.”
    Sara Naveed, Our Story Ends Here



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