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“the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done”
― John Galsworthy

“My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“Sunset is the saddest light there is.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon

“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
― Simon and Garfunkel

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“Books are a narcotic.”
― Franz Kafka

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“A house is not a home until it has a dog.”
― Gerald Durrell

“Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I typed them? We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe.

And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds managed to touch, if but briefly and imperfectly.

Does that thought not make the universe seem just a bit kinder, a bit brighter, a bit warmer and more human?

We live for such miracles.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“Már régen tökélyre vitte azt a képességet, hogy csak azt lássa, akit látni akar, ami létfontosságú készség, ha az ember a világnak nem áldozata, hanem ura akar lenni.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence

“A két legnépszerűbb elmélet egyike szerint minden vallás valamiféle igazolás, a másik szerint inkább ópium; a kettő nem mindig hozható összhangba. A gazdagok inkább igazolásra, a szegények inkább kábítószerre vágynak. A hit "audiovizuális" elemei a lelki megnyugvás eléréséhez éppoly nélkülözhetetlenek, mint a társadalmi rend elidegenítéséhez.”
― Ernest Gellner, Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals

“What a terrible mistake, thought Drogo, perhaps everything is like that — we think there are beings like ourselves around us and instead there is nothing but ice and stones speaking a strange language; we are on the point of greeting a friend but our arm falls inert, the smile dies away because we are completely alone.”
― Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe

“It was at this period that Drogo realised how far apart men are whatever their affection for each other, that if you suffer the pain is yours and yours alone, no one else can take upon himself the least part of it; that if you suffer it does not mean that others feel pain even though their love is great: hence the loneliness of life.”
― Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe

“I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.”
― Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero