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“Mīlestība nav tavā varā. Tā atnāk un ir tevī. Un tu savādāk nevari. Tu atkal esi viena gabala. Tev nav jautājumu.”
― Inga Ābele, High Tide

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

“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

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.”
― Douglas Adams

“What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"Ask a glass of water!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“What's up?" [asked Ford.]
"I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there.”
― Douglas Adams

“The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.”
― Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer

“No person ever died that had a family.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life?

See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

“Kad bērns nonāk zooloģiskajā dārzā, es domāju bērns, kurš ir kaut ko lasījis un daudz domājis, kad šis bērns ierauga ziloni, viņš neko nesaka, taču nodomā - nav nemaz tik liels. To bērns nodomā pavisam klusi, jo negrib ļaut fantāzijai noskaust dzīvi. Tomēr zilonis ir mazs. Tikai vēlāk, kad fantāzija sāk piemirsties un mēs vērīgāk paskatāmies uz to ziloni, kurš klusi tusnī un kaisa sev uz galvas salmus, kad mēs pēkšņi esam šī ziloņa priekšā, mēs attopamies - cik viņš ir milzīgs!”
― Jānis Joņevs, Jelgava 94

“Relearn astonishment.”
― Elias Canetti

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before...but the little house stayed just the same.”
― Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams