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“If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.”
― Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“I think of you so often you have no idea.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Την αυγή ήμουνα καινούργιος σα να με
είχαν κόψει την ώρα εκείνη από το λατομείο.”
― Γιώργος Σεφέρης, Τετράδιο γυμνασμάτων: 1928-1937

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“Η μητέρα του ήταν από τους ανθρώπους που η ζωή χύνει σε έτοιμα καλούπια.”
― Alexander Grin, Алые паруса. Бегущая по волнам

“Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.”
― Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
― Franz Kafka

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on.”
― Stephen King, It

“Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Books are a narcotic.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we’d be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like suicide. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am hated for loving.
I am haunted for wanting.”
― Morrissey

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Loving someone always requires you to not love others.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Take me away from all this Death.”
― Stoker Bram