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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

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

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like”
― Adele

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“So, Grace, how's school?" I asked myself.
Dad nodded, eyes on the baby koala now struggling in the guest's arms.
"Oh, it's fine," I continued, and Dad made a mumbling noise of agreement. I added, "Nothing special, aside from the load of pandas they brought in, and the teachers abandoning us to cannibalistic savages-" I paused to see if I'd caught his attention yet, then pressed on. "The whole building caught fire, then I failed drama, and then sex, sex, sex."
Dad's eyes abruptly focused, and he turned to me and frowned. "What did you say they were teaching you in school?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― Elinor Glyn

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

“I get to go to overseas places, like Canada.”
― Britney Spears

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
― John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays