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“Toţi suntem trişti, spunea el. Nu se vede întotdeauna, dar toţi oamenii sunt trişti.”
― Mircea Eliade, Noaptea de Sânziene

“Ar fi înspăimântător să crezi că din tot acest cosmos atât de armonios, desăvârşit şi egal cu sine, numai viaţa omului se petrece la întâmplare, numai destinul lui n-are nici un sens.”
― Mircea Eliade, Nuntă în cer

“to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.”
― Mircea Eliade

“Light does not come from light, but from darkness.”
― Mircea Eliade

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“I am a citizen of the world.”
― Sylvia Beach

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
― Kinky Friedman

“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.”
― Ken Follet

“Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“We're all in this game together.”
― William Styron

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“Do not allow me to forget you”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

“La drept vorbind, toată viaţa mea e un şir de pasiuni eşuate.
Mereu am luat-o de la început.”
― Octavian Paler, Viața pe un peron

“― Dacă ştii să vrei, e imposibil să nu găseşti ceea ce cauţi.”
― Mihail Drumeş, Scrisoare de dragoste

“E cu neputinţă să întâlneşti un om de la care să nu înveţi ceva.”
― Mihail Drumeş, Scrisoare de dragoste

“Mă vezi în închipuire. Acolo am cel puţin avantajul că sunt aşa cum mă vrei tu.”
― Mihail Drumeş, Scrisoare de dragoste

“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera