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“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and you could be continents away for all it means anything.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Most of us pretend, with greater or lesser success, that the minute we live in is something we can share. But the past for every one of us is a desert island.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“‎Слаба е и бедна човешката реч, никога не може да се изкаже напълно това, което става в човешкото сърце.”
― Димитър Талев, Преспанските камбани

“That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

“Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I hesitated. Karla once said that men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, she said, it's the other way around.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

“So, yeah, my people figured that maybe there's something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we say thank you to it, because it's always good to say thank you. But we never built churches. We didn't need to. The land was the church. The land was the religion. The land was older and wiser than the people who walked on it.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“[D]as Gedächtnis [ist] schwach und der Lauf eines Lebens kurz und alles [geschieht] so rasch, dass wir den Zusammenhang zwischen den Ereignissen nicht mehr sehen, die Folgen der Taten nicht mehr ermessen können, wir glauben an die Fiktion der Zeit, an Gegenwart, Vergangenheit und Zukunft, aber es kann auch sein, dass alles gleichzeitig geschieht [...]”
― Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus

“И приказките, и песните, и мечтите са все за това - да те измъкнат от истината, за да разбереш, че си човек”
― Елин Пелин

“Злото не е трайно, доброто е господар на човешкото сърце.”
― Елин Пелин, Разкази. Гераците

“every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Той беше душа, пораснала в покорност на съдбата — мека, блага, изпълнена с вяра и надежда, че всяко зло има край, че тоя свят не ще се тъй да дърви, а един ден ще се оправи.”
― Елин Пелин, Разкази. Гераците

“There's no such thing as forever.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

- Karla”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
― Osho

“Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“In the beginning we feared everything—animals, the weather, the trees, the night sky—everything except each other. Now we fear each other, and almost nothing else. No-one knows why anyone does anything. No-one tells the truth. No-one is happy. No-one is safe. In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate. And now you have it.’ He”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucious

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”
― Anchee Min, Empress Orchid

“Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.”
― Morrissey

“Изведнъж присъствието му запълва нищото и го превръща във всичко.”
― Blaga Dimitrova, Лавина

“The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex