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  • #1
    John Steinbeck
    “Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
    John Steinbeck

  • #2
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “The beginning is always today.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft

  • #3
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    Rumi

  • #4
    Fola
    “Reality is just a dream dreamed by everyone”
    Fola, The Seed

  • #5
    Fola
    “What is far is very close, and what is close is very far”
    Fola, The Seed

  • #6
    Bertolt Brecht
    “The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #7
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #8
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    Socrates

  • #9
    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #10
    Tahir Shah
    “What came next was a new experience for for both the fish and me”
    Tahir Shah, Sorcerer's Apprentice

  • #11
    Susane Colasanti
    “It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.”
    Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

  • #12
    Ray Bradbury
    “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #14
    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

  • #15
    “It's only words... unless they're true.”
    David Mamet

  • #16
    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

  • #17
    Haruki Murakami
    “It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #18
    Clarice Lispector
    “So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”
    Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

  • #19
    Daphne du Maurier
    “Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
    Daphne du Maurier

  • #20
    Slavoj Žižek
    “Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
    Slavoj Žižek

  • #21
    S. Ramakrishnan
    “ உலகம் முழுவதும் வீடுகள் இருக்கின்றன. எல்லா வீடுகளிலும் ஜன்னல்கள் இருக்கின்றன. எல்லா ஜன்னலுக்கு பின்னும் ஒரு சிறுவனோ சிறுமியோ உலகை வியப்பு கலையாமல் பார்த்து கொண்டேயிருக்கிறார்கள் ” - (ஜன்னல் வழியான உலகு)”
    S.Ramakrishnan

  • #22
    George R.R. Martin
    “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

  • #23
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #24
    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #25
    Haruki Murakami
    “I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #26
    Shashi Deshpande
    “Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.”
    Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence

  • #27
    Oriana Fallaci
    “You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.”
    Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

  • #28
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #29
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned”
    W. Somerset Maugham

  • #30
    Charles Dickens
    “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
    Charles Dickens, David Copperfield



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