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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void.”
― Democritus

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“She said the mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. So I quoted the First Law of Mentat at her: ‘A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Before the morn ye'll work mischief:''
Indeed will I,'' quo' Findlay.

-Ти май си нещо наумил.
-Май нещо - каза Финдли.”
― Robert Burns

“We can't stop here, this is bat country!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“Спри този миг,
докато има още миг,
за да не дойде времето
безлико,
да пропълзи на лапи котешки и да го грабне.

Докато те обичам, докато любовта ми пада като любов,
отронена от лист
на цвят
вземи ме.”
― Уилям Голдмън

“Schon ist alle Nähe fern”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gedichte

“Oh!--and I speak out of later knowledge--Heaven forefend me from the most of the average run of male humans who are not good fellows, the ones cold of heart and cold of head who don't smoke, drink, or swear, or do much of anything else that is brase, and resentful, and stinging, because in their feeble fibres there has never been the stir and prod of life to well over its boundaries and be devilish and daring. One doesn't meet these in saloons, nor rallying to lost causes, nor flaming on the adventure-paths, nor loving as God's own mad lovers. They are too busy keeping their feet dry, conserving their heart-beats, and making unlovely life-successes of their spirit-mediocrity.”
― Jack London, John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs

“Five wild Event Maelstroms swirled in vicious storms of unreason and spewed up a pavement.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“You can't interrupt the process of making a key once you've started. It lets a kind of hesitation into the iron. That happens and the key will never sit well in its lock.”
― Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

“Vi brukade prata så när vi var unga, Sten och jag. Om döden som något som man skulle hantera som en part i en duell. Även om utgången var given kunde man trötta ut döden så att den bara hade krafter nog att utdela ett sista hugg. Det var så vi bestämde att döden skulle bli för oss båda, nåt man skulle klara av så "att det gick bra".”
― Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

“Någonstans ute i mörkret, borta vid de lömska Stökgrunden slog en osynliga gädda en virvel, och mot öster, där gryningen brukade komma skrek en uppretad tärna.
Kanske också fåglar hade mardrömmar?”
― Henning Mankell, Isidorin tarina

“Han lutade sig mot relingen, gav sin tribut till evigheten och spottade i havet.”
― Henning Mankell, Isidorin tarina

“No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical point: When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, but there is no one to hear it, does it - philosophically speaking - make a noise?”
― Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

“It's all right," she said in a voice which would have calmed the Big Bang down.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“Mrs E. Kapelsen of Boston, Massachusetts was an elderly lady, indeed, she felt her life was nearly at an end. She had seen a lot of it, been puzzled by some, but, she was a little uneasy to feel at this late stage, bored by too much. It had all been very pleasant, but perhaps a little too explicable, a little too routine.
With a sigh she flipped up the little plastic window shutter and looked out over the wing.
At first she thought she ought to call the stewardess, but then she thought no, damn it, definitely not, this was for her, and her alone.
By the time her two inexplicable people finally slipped back off the wing and tumbled into the slipstream she had cheered up an awful lot.
She was mostly immensely relieved to think that virtually everything that anybody had ever told her was wrong.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“There's no educating a smart boy.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“Someone who eats pancakes and jam can’t be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.”
― Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

“Tro på mig bara. Jag är förskräckligt klok!”
― Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

“Le chemin des passions me conduit — as Lord Edouard in the "Julie" says it did him — à la philosophie veritable.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath

“Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, There is a difference

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories