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“But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“I wanted to tell them that I'd never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens and weren't meant to be shot down from their graceful flights by mean and stupid boys. I wanted to tell them that he had changed my life and that I would never be the same, not ever. And that somehow it felt like it was Dante who had saved my life and not the other way around. I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. I wanted to tell them so many things and yet I didn't have the words. So I just stupidly repeated myself. "Dante's my friend.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Dejemos a las mujeres guapas para los hombres sin imaginación.”
― Marcel Proust, Albertine desaparecida: En busca del tiempo perdido VI

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

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
― James Baldwin

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
― Sophocles

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

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

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Maybe I’ll be graceful in my next life.”
― Ellen Dugan, Legacy of Magick

“blaming someone else for my problems isn’t going to make them disappear.”
― Jenny O'Brien, Boy Brainy

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest