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  • #1
    Umberto Eco
    “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
    Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    “It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
    R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn

  • #4
    “Love is a rebellious bird,
    that nobody can tame,
    and you call him quite in vain,
    if it suits him not to come.”
    Ludovic Halévy

  • #5
    Elle Fowler
    “i love reading because it is fun”
    Elle Fowler, Beneath the Glitter

  • #6
    William Gibson
    “The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
    William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

  • #7
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald

  • #8
    Maurice Sendak
    “A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
    Maurice Sendak

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    Dan    Brown
    “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
    Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

  • #11
    Phyllis Diller
    “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
    Phyllis Diller

  • #12
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #13
    Amelia Earhart
    “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
    Amelia Earhart

  • #14
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    Herman Melville

  • #15
    Joseph Conrad
    “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
    Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

  • #16
    Alan Paton
    “Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
    Alan Paton

  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #18
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

  • #19
    Norman Mailer
    “I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
    Norman Mailer

  • #20
    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

  • #21
    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

  • #22
    Henry Miller
    “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
    Henry Miller

  • #23
    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    Tom Bodett

  • #24
    Johnny Cash
    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
    Johnny Cash

  • #25
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #26
    Keri Hulme
    “You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
    Keri Hulme, The Bone People

  • #27
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

  • #28
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #29
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    “The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
    Aung San Suu Kyi

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
    Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court



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