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#1

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

21187 likes

#2

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

tags: life, peace

10243 likes

#3

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: humor, semantics, suspicion

4592 likes

#4

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

2665 likes

#5

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177269 likes

#6

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101588 likes

#7

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

76564 likes

#8

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

25073 likes

#9

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: wonder

2207 likes

#10

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135573 likes

#11

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35633 likes

#12

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25520 likes

#13

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23583 likes

#14

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: imagination

2300 likes

#15

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

tags: diamond, soul

1815 likes

#16

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151563 likes

#17

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29736 likes

#18

“El mayor lujo de nuestra existencia, por miserable que sea, es que no sabemos los días que nos han tocado en suerte”
― John Katzenbach, El psicoanalista

80 likes

#19

“Tememos que nos maten. Pero es mucho peor que nos destruyan.”
― John Katzenbach, The Analyst

87 likes

#20

“Hasta los malos poetas aman la muerte”
― John Katzenbach, The Analyst

36 likes

#21

“Ése es uno de los principales problemas de estar loco: nunca estás seguro de las cosas”
― John Katzenbach, The Madman's Tale

27 likes

#22

“El mejor juego es aquel en el que no te das cuenta de que estas jugando.”
― John Katzenbach, The Analyst

26 likes

#23

“That truth is far stronger than death.”
― John Katzenbach, The Analyst

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#24

“La Historia es una pesadilla de la que intento despertar...”
― John Katzenbach, La Sombra

4 likes

#25

“Era mejor evitar las heridas desde un principio que tener que tratarlas”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

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#26

“Lo único que se necesita en la vida es seguridad, conocimiento y mucho descaro.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

tags: vida

4 likes

#27

“Kyralia estaria muy bien gobernada, si gobernar fuera un delito”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magicians' Guild

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#28

“Todos somos esclavos, ama —replicó Vora—. Las mujeres. Los hombres, a su manera. No existe la libertad, solo diferentes tipos de esclavitud. Incluso un ashaki ve constreñidos sus actos por las restricciones que imponen la tradición y la política. Y el emperador es aún menos libre que ellos.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

tags: esclavitud, libertad

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#29

“La gente y la tierra son lo mismo - solia decir su padre- si desatiendes una de las dos, la otra acaba pagando las consecuencias”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

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#30

“Ay, los hombres casados podéis fingiros los amos de vuestros castillos, torres y demás, pero el ama del dormitorio es el ama del amo, ¿eh?”
― brent weeks, Beyond the Shadows

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