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“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
― Samuel Butler

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
― Virginia Woolf

“That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Quem não sabe perdoar, só sabe coisas pequenas.”
― Valter Hugo Mãe, A Desumanização

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

“Parece-me que pode ser esta uma das diferenças entre a juventude e a idade: quando somos jovens, inventamos futuros diferentes para nós; quando somos velhos, inventamos passados diferentes para os outros.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Nobody truly becomes an adult. The child we have been is always there, deep inside of us. As time passes, we think we're growing, but maturity is only an illusion; a hindrance to our free child soul.”
― Jirō Taniguchi

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Quantas vezes contamos a história da nossa vida? Quantas vezes adaptamos, embelezamos, fazemos cortes matreiros? E, quanto mais a vida avança, menos são os que à nossa volta desafiam o nosso relato, para nos lembrar que a nossa vida não é a nossa vida, é só a história que contámos sobre a nossa vida. Que contámos aos outros mas — principalmente — a nós próprios.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman