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“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

“A great nose may be an index
Of a great soul”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

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

“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

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

“Το ξέρω...
είναι μεγάλο "μανίκι" να στηρίζεσαι στα πόδια σου
και να μην "ακουμπάς" σε πλάτες κανενός.
Το δοκίμασα....
Κακοτράχαλος δρόμος!
Κι όμως, φίλε μου...
Μονάχα έτσι, αξίζει η διαδρομή!”
― Νικόλας Άσιμος

“Ανθρώπους ψάχνουμε όχι ιδεολογίες,
Ανθρώπους που να 'χουν θάρρος, αγάπη, καλοσύνη.
Ανθρώπους που δεν είναι ψεύτες, ρηχοί και βολεμένοι και ξέρουν να δίνουνε,
όχι να ρουφάν και να εκμεταλλεύονται τους γύρω.
Ανθρώπους έστω με καρδιά. Κι ας είναι δικηγόροι, παπάδες και αστυνόμοι. Κι ας είναι και χαφιέδες, κομουνιστές, αναρχικοί,
αρκεί να έχουν τόλμη να κρατήσουν ένα λόγο και να πούνε την αλήθεια.”
― Νικόλας Άσιμος

“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
― Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs