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

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Hardcore chicken!”
― Tony Horwitz

“I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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