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“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

“Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.”
― Chris Colfer

“Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.”
― Scylar Tyberius, Sebastian the Great

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“D’you know what happens when you hurt people?’ Ammu said. ‘When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“अक्सर ज्यादातर आदमी अपनी जवानी के दौर में समाजवादी, नारीवादी या मार्क्सवादी में से कुछ-न-कुछ जरूर होता है और एक दौर के बाद वो निश्चित रूप से इनमें से कुछ भी नहीं होता है। सिर्फ कमाता-खाता आदमी होता है।”
― Nilotpal Mrinal, Aughad

“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”
― Ruskin Bond

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov