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“This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
― Yukio Mishima

“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

“We are not as simple as our friends would have us to meet their ends.”
― Virginia Woolf

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

“The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.”
― W.H. Auden

“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
― Lord Byron

“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love”
― Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables