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“Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
― Joseph Heller

“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Your first kiss is destiny knocking.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
― Ayn Rand

“Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Xu cười đã bảo rồi, người tỉnh không khóc như trẻ nít vậy đâu. Người tỉnh càng mất nhiều càng chai lì, càng thản nhiên.”
― Nguyễn Ngọc Tư, Sông

“You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.”
― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“[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

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Everyone in this tale had a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; yours, that you are so well. Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, “The fault, dear Brutus, is no in our stars / But in ourselves.” Easy to say when you’re a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing in particular goes wrong, they just reach their end. They burn out.”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
― Mary Anne Radmacher

“...because you are young and you live in a confusing world of gray shades where compromises are easy and often."

Keep you heart right.”
― Phạm Đức Trung Kiên

“Giá mà lúc mình buồn như tận thế

Có một ai bấm máy gọi cho mình

Mình sẽ khóc mặc thân sơ quen lạ

Quên dặt dè mà thổ lộ linh tinh

Giá mà lúc lòng mình đang yếu đuối

Có một ai yên lặng nắm tay mình

Thì có lẽ mình sẽ mang tình đó

Mà thương hoài với một dạ đinh ninh

Giá mà lúc mình đau như dao cắt

Có một ai chợt nói nhớ mong mình

Mình sẽ tự băng vết thương rớm máu

Gượng bước về nơi hẹn cũ nghe mưa

Giá mà lúc mình rơi vào đáy vực

Hết trông mong hy vọng hết cả rồi

Có ai đó bảo mình không sao cả

Mình sẽ bò theo dấu vết sông trôi

Giá mà lúc mình đang yêu, người đó

Gửi tin vui lên những ánh sao trời

Thì có lẽ mình sẽ không lưu lạc

Suốt một đời đau đáu cố nhân ơi!

(Gía mà lúc)”
― Nguyễn Thiên Ngân, Mình Phải Sống Như Mùa Hè Năm Ấy

“Rốt cuộc rồi cũng sẽ là mưa
Sau rất nhiều ngày tạnh
Rốt cuộc em cũng sẽ biết mắt người thì lạnh
Và tay người chỉ ấm đôi khi”
― Nguyễn Thiên Ngân, Mình Phải Sống Như Mùa Hè Năm Ấy

“Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore