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  • #1
    Peter Shaffer
    “The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
    Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise

  • #2
    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    Joseph Brodsky

  • #3
    Alexandre Dumas
    “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

  • #4
    Carl Sandburg
    “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
    Carl Sandburg

  • #5
    Lewis Carroll
    “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #6
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

  • #7
    Betty Friedan
    “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
    Betty Friedan

  • #8
    Edward Albee
    “You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
    Edward Albee

  • #9
    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    Daphne du Maurier

  • #10
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald

  • #11
    Orhan Pamuk
    “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
    Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

  • #12
    Ben Jonson
    “Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
    You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
    Best, while you have it, use your breath;
    There is no drinking after death.”
    Ben Jonson

  • #13
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #14
    Anthony  Powell
    “I get a warm feeling among my books.”
    Anthony Powell

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #16
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #17
    Gisela Leal
    “Me daba ternura; nunca pensé que ternura fuera un sentimiento que Camilo fuera a causar en mí. Conforme seguía hablando, cada vez me daban más ganas de abrazarlo y decirle que lo entendía, que no se preocupara, que todo iba a estar bien; que un día todo estaría bien.”
    Gisela Leal, El club de los abandonados

  • #18
    Countee Cullen
    “There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
    Countee Cullen

  • #19
    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    Amy Bloom

  • #20
    Vikram Seth
    “God save us from people who mean well.”
    Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

  • #21
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “To love and win is the best thing.
    To love and lose, the next best.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray

  • #22
    Elspeth Huxley
    “How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”
    Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

  • #23
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #24
    Mónica Gutiérrez Artero
    “La complejidad de un ser humano es casi infinita. No puedes andar por la vida repitiéndote que no eres más que una arqueóloga porque entonces el resto de cosas que hagas o sientas no te supondrán más que rutina y tristeza. [...] La vida era mucho más que una carrera profesional.”
    Mónica Gutiérrez Artero, La librería del señor Livingstone



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