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“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
― George Carlin

“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“أشيــاء تـودّ لو قتلتـهـا لكنّك كلّمـا صـادفتهـا أردتك قتيـلا ~”
― أحلام مستغانمي, com نسيان

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history—greater than the fall of empires—I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

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

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“What makes life worth living? No child asks itself that question. To children life is self-evident. Life goes without saying: whether it is good or bad makes no difference. This is because children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves. Not until that happens, until a distance appears between what they are and what the world is, does the question arise: what makes life worth living?”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Om høsten