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

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

“One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else's future. And it wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.”
― Brian Aldiss, The Dark Light Years

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“But, you know, do what you like! Have a million books! I was only, like, asking. It’s still a book if you’re reading it on an iPad. Soup is soup whatever bowl it’s in.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“The fact that you no longer have a right to grieve for someone you once shared your life with makes the pain even worse.  •”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“Εσύ μόνο μου φάνηκες σαν εκείνο που πάντα κανείς αναζητά”
― Alfred de Vigny, Eloa, or the Sister of the Angels

“Yes. It doesn’t matter what happens; no matter where a child goes—how far or how long. Even if it’s forever. You never lose them. You can’t.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it. So.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

“All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander / Dragonfly in Amber / Voyager / Drums of Autumn / The Fiery Cross / A Breath of Snow and Ashes / An Echo in the Bone

“Blind, that’s what I am. I never opened my eyes. I never thought to look into people’s hearts, I looked only in their faces. Stone blind . . . Mr. Stone. Mr. Stone set a watchman in church yesterday. He should have provided me with one. I need a watchman to lead me around and declare what he seeth every hour on the hour. I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference. I need a watchman to go forth and proclaim to them all that twenty-six years is too long to play a joke on anybody, no matter how funny it is.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo        Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection

“It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

“The charlatan is always the pioneer. From the astrologer came the astronomer, from the alchemist the chemist, from the mesmerist the experimental psychologist. The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“People, in general," he said, "only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers