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“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

“Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

“We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“There is always a reason to smile. You just have to find one.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“It’s like you’re always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.”
― Brent Jones, The Fifteenth of June

“I gave up drinking before my twentieth birthday. I haven’t touched the stuff since. And I’ve discovered that not everyone who does horrible things is a horrible person.”
― Brent Jones, The Fifteenth of June

“See, you’ve got to understand, son. There’s two types of guys in this world. There’s guys . . . who think they’re in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.”
― Brent Jones, The Fifteenth of June

“Happiness isn’t something you work toward, the same way misery isn’t something you work toward.”
― Brent Jones, The Fifteenth of June

“A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.”
― Aristophanes

“No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”
― Khalil Gibran

“Live like a tree, giving, forgiving and free.”
― Debasish Mridha M.D.

“It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I was too curious about the future to look back.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I was never going to become anything but myself, that i was of the clan of Peter Pan and we did not grow up”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“People tend to find books when they are ready for them.”
― Neil Gaiman

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

“The door handle is the handshake of the building.”
― Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses