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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“- Δηλαδή στη ζωή περισσότερο αξίζουν αυτά που χάνεις παρά αυτά που βρίσκεις, η Όρσα προχώρησε σ'ένα βιαστικό συμπέρασμα, κάτι την έκαιγε, μια εμμονή, μια αμφιβολία, κάτι.
- Αυτά που βρίσκεις ξαναχάνονται, τόνισε η Νανά τις λέξεις μία μια, αυτά που έχασες υπάρχουν για πάντα.”
― Ιωάννα Καρυστιάνη, Μικρά Αγγλία

“Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Do you know — I hardly remembered you?"
"Hardly remembered me?"
"I mean: how shall I explain? I — it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence