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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
― Agatha Christie

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

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:

where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. ”
― Pablo Neruda

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.”
― Ann Brashares

“Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.”
― Sara Nelson, So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

“When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.”
― Sara Nelson

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.”
― Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
― Robert Frost

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
― Lily Tomlin

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath