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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“Colour is the touch of the eye,
Music to the deaf,
A word out of darkness.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“სიკვდილი რომ არ იყოს – აღარ იქნებოდა ამქვეყნად გულადი და ლაჩარი, მდიდარი და მონა, თვით სიკეთე და ბოროტებაც არ იქნებოდა, სიკვდილი რომ არ იყოს. არ დაგჭირდებოდათ არც ბრძოლა და ერთმანეთის ჟლეტა, მაგრამ არც მოსავლისათვის მიწის დაბარვა დაგჭირდებოდათ. არც ოსტატური სიტყვა-პასუხი, არც ვისიმე შიში არ გექნებოდათ და არც კეთილები იქნებოდით და არც ბოროტნი, არც ბედნიერნი და არც უბედურნი-აღარაფერი არ ვიქნებოდით… ვიღა გაგვარჩევდა, სიკვდილი რომ არ იყოს… მთელი ის ჩვენი უსასრულო სიცოცხლე აღარაფერი არ იქნებოდა, ახლა კი, ახლა, სიკვდილი რომ არის, სიცოცხლე სიცოცხლეა, მაშინ კი, მერწმუნეთ, დამიჯერეთ, თავად წვიმაც და ჰაერიც აღარაფერი არ იქნებოდა, აღარაფერი, ჰეე, სიკვდილი რომ არ იყოს . . .”
― Guram Dochanashvili, სამოსელი პირველი

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part”
― Anna Gavalda, I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere

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

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
― Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
― John Green

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns