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  • #1
    Hermann Hesse
    “Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #2
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #3
    Alexandre Dumas
    “The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #4
    “You only lose what you cling to.”
    Guatama Buddha

  • #5
    J.D. Salinger
    “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #6
    Hermann Hesse
    “Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #7
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #8
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #9
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
    But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #10
    Alexandre Dumas
    “It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #11
    Alexandre Dumas
    “I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #13
    Jane Austen
    “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #15
    Jane Austen
    “My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
    Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice

  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

  • #17
    Hank Green
    “Just because someone has power over you doesn’t mean they’re going to use it to hurt you. People who believe that tend to either be:

    People who have been victims of that sort of behavior, or . . .

    People who, if given power, will use it to hurt you.”
    Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

  • #18
    Hank Green
    “What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way?”
    Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

  • #19
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #20
    J.D. Salinger
    “I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #21
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #22
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
    ...live in the question.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!”
    Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.”
    Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn



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