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    Mikhail Gorbachev
    “If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.”
    Mikhail S. Gorbachev

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    Mikhail Gorbachev
    “Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.”
    Mikhail S. Gorbachev

  • #2
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    “Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.”
    Mikhail S. Gorbachev

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    Agatha Christie
    “A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

    -The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)
    Agatha Christie, The Hound of Death and Other Stories

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    Agatha Christie
    “One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #6
    Agatha Christie
    “One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #7
    Agatha Christie
    “But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”
    Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #10
    Sylvia Plath
    “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #11
    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
    sylvia plath

  • #12
    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #13
    Sylvia Plath
    “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #14
    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #15
    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #16
    Sylvia Plath
    “I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise. ”
    Jane Austin

  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    Jane Austen

  • #21
    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    Jane Austen

  • #22
    Jane Austen
    “It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #23
    Jane Austen
    “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #24
    Umberto Eco
    “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
    Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

  • #25
    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #26
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #28
    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #29
    Knut Hamsun
    “But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…”
    Knut Hamsun, Mysteries

  • #30
    Knut Hamsun
    “I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.”
    Knut Hamsun, Mysteries



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