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    Donald A. Norman
    “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable.”
    Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

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    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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    Fredrik Backman
    “Because not all monsters were monsters in the beginning. Some are monsters born of sorrow.”
    Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises

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

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    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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    “Той знаеше, че никое общество не се променя бързо; познаваше признаците на треската и разложението. Безогледен разврат, нехайство към слабостите, неоснователно позиране, липса на чувство за такт, празнословие; изтощена кръв, изразходвала пламъка си в насмешки, евтини приключения, дребнава корист, учтив фатализъм и немощна безцелност. „Тия хора няма да спасят света“ — помисли той. Но кой тогава?”
    Ерих Мария Ремарк, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
    Marilyn Monroe

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    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    Anais Nin

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    Paulo Coelho
    “Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
    Paulo Coelho, Brida

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    Charles Baudelaire
    “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
    Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

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

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “1My father says a hunch is your brain’s way of taking a short cut to the truth,’ replied Max.
    ‘He’s a wise man, your father. What else does he say?’

    ‘That the more you try to hide from the truth, the quicker it finds you.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prince of Mist

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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go



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