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  • #1
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

  • #4
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #5
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #6
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

  • #8
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #9
    André Gide
    “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
    André Gide

  • #10
    André Gide
    “On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage.

    (One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.)”
    André Gide, The Counterfeiters

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #13
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #14
    Frank Herbert
    “You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #15
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • #16
    Lao Tzu
    “If you are depressed you are living in the past.
    If you are anxious you are living in the future.
    If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #17
    Charles F. Haanel
    “The spirit which sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, moves in the animal, and reaches its highest development in man is the Universal Mind,”
    Charles F. Haanel, The Master Key System

  • #18
    Dean Koontz
    “Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”
    Dean Koontz, Innocence

  • #19
    Bohumil Hrabal
    “I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
    Bohumil Hrabal



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