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“So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. [Translation by Isabel F. Hapgood]”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.'
'Never. Going. To. Happen.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Iced

“Sorry,” I muttered. “Just because you’re an asshole doesn’t mean I have to be a bitch.”
― Jenna Black, Glimmerglass

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.”
― Plutarch

“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”
― Plutarch

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
― Plutarch

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
― Otto Rank

“It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”
― Plutarch

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

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterward on the dresser and curtains.
---Cole”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”
― Voltaire

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

“I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead Reckoning

“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
― Patricia A. McKillip

“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London