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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually , it falls apart.”
― Kirsten Miller, The Eternal Ones

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Δεν θα αλλάξουμε εμείς τους ανθρώπους από τις πεποιθήσεις τους. Είναι αυταπάτη αν το νομίζουμε αυτο. Ούτε είναι σωστό να κρίνουμε κάποιον με βάση τη δικιά μας ιδεολογία. Η απόφαση για οτιδήποτε είναι αποκλειστικά δική μας και η όποια αλλαγή ξεκινά πάντα μέσα από τα βάθη της ψυχής μας αρκεί να το νιώθουμε ότι έτσι αποκτά αληθινή χαρά η ζωή μας.”
― Dimitris Tzaferis

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Επέστρεφε συχνά και παίρνε με την νύχτα,
όταν τα χείλη και το δέρμα ενθυμούνται.”
― Κ.Π. Καβάφης

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.”
― David Langford

“to have a physical body and to work with it and to work with the forces of nature to mold it into the highest expression of joy, and to keep it always by using it to learn how to overcome disease, impairment and as today’s cutting edge, non-funded, objective, purposeful science says, one day, even death?   What if short-term excitement and intensity created by the overblown desire to win at all cost could be replaced by a more durable excitement in an intensity springing from the heart of the physical athletic experience itself?  It would soon be discovered that sports and physical activities reformed and refurbished with integrity, not buy-offs are the best possible path to personal enlightenment and social transformation for this new millennium.”
― Don Tolman, Air, Fire, Earth & Water

“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
― Toni Morrison

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus