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“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.”
― Dale Renton

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

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

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

“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

“اعرف أن وقتا كافيا قد مر. لأنسي أو أتناسى. اعرف أن أفضل علاج للقلب المحطم.. هو أن يتحطم مرة أخرى.”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“أنا فتات إنسان يتظاهر أنه على قيد الحياة وهو ليس كذلك..!”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“مش وقتها.. مش ساعات كده فيه حاجات صحّ بتيجي في وقت غلط؟”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“أمّا السكوت فدائِماً أبلغ.. يحوي بداخله ما تعجز عنه الكلمات.”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“العــشـق : مـرض نـتـخـيـّل أننـا نـشـفـى مـنـه .. فـقـط لأن لا أحـد يـمـوت بـسـبـبـه نـظـريـا”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“He looked both proud and guilty of something. As if happiness was a reward and he wasn't sure he'd done enough to deserve it.”
― Rupert Thomson, The Five Gates of Hell

“Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.”
― Adam Young

“I imagine the feelings of two people meeting again after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore they think they are linked by the same experience, the same recollections. The same recollections? That's where the misunderstanding starts: they don't have the same recollections; each of them retains two or three small scenes from the past, but each has his own; their recollections are not similar; they don't intersect; and even in terms of quantity they are not comparable: one person remembers the other more than he is remembered; first because memory capacity varies among individuals (an explanation that each of them would at least find acceptable), but also (and this is more painful to admit) because they don't hold the same importance for each other. When Irena saw Josef at the airport, she remembered every detail of their long-ago adventure; Josef remembered nothing. From the very first moment their encounter was based on an unjust and revolting inequality.”
― Milan Kundera

“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

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”
― Red Haircrow

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
― Stephen Hawking

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason