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

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it's relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could I get for each one?”
― Jarod Kintz

“I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
― Voltaire

“A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.”
― Confucius

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
― Voltaire

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

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death”
― Thomas Bernhard

“It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles

“4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to conceive, for how could a person, even only as a nothing, consciously surrender himself to the nothing, and not merely to an empty nothing but rather to a roaring nothing whose nothingness consists only in its incomprehensibility.”
― Franz Kafka

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Never Explain Anything”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“There are all kinds of flight from responsibility. There is a flight into death, a flight into sickness, and finally a flight into stupidity.”
― Arthur Schnitzler

“Death and horror are always near us. The challenge is to get on with our lives and be happy when we can always see them out of the corner of our eye, blurred, but still recognisable in the background.”
― Gordon Reece, Mice

“Our mother celebrated all our birthdays, not a single one of our birthdays was not celebrated, I hated those birthday celebrations, as you may imagine, just as I hate any celebrations, I hate anything festive, anything solemn to this day, nothing is more distasteful to me than celebrating or being celebrated, I am a hater of festivities, he said, from childhood I have hated all feasting and celebrating and above all I have hated birthday celebrations, no matter what birthday it was, and most of all I hated a parental birthday being celebrated; how can a person celebrate a birthday, his birthday, I have always wondered, when it is a misfortune to be in this world at all; yes, I always thought if people were to observe a memorial hour on their birthday, a memorial hour for the monstrous deed their progenitors had committed against them, that I would understand, but surely not a festivity, he said.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters: A Comedy

“And you realize that it was not those great minds and not those old masters which kept you alive for decades but that it was this one single person whom you loved more than anyone else.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters: A Comedy