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“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
― Carter Crocker

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
― Jane Austen

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”
― Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light

“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“Cieszy mię ten rym: „Polak mądr po szkodzie”;
Lecz jeśli prawda i z tego nas zbodzie,
Nową przypowieść Polak sobie kupi,
Że i przed szkodą, i po szkodzie głupi.”
― Jan Kochanowski

“Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.”
― Mo Yan, Big Breasts & Wide Hips

“Bo kto nie był ni razu człowiekiem,
Temu człowiek nic nie pomoże.”
― Adam Mickiewicz, Dziady

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves.”
― Zofia Kossak-Szczucka

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“POETA
Po całym świecie
możesz szukać Polski, panno młoda,
i nigdzie jej nie znajdziecie.

PANNA MŁODA
To może i szukać szkoda.

POETA
A jest jedna mała klatka -
o, niech tak Jagusia przymknie
rękę pod pierś.

PANNA MŁODA
To zakładka
gorseta, zeszyta trochę przyciaśnie.

POETA
---A tam puka?

PANNA MŁODA
I cóż za tako nauka?
Serce-!-?

POETA
A to Polska właśnie.”
― Stanisław Wyspiański, The Wedding

“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“...But first appearances are often deceptive. Not everything monstrous looking is evil, and not everything fair is good...and in every fairytale, there is a grain of truth.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
― Anonymous

“Głos Bogów jest słabo słyszalny, a oni sami bywają omylni; to tylko ludzie, w ich imieniu, uzurpują sobie prawo do nieomylności.”
― Dorota Terakowska, Samotność bogów

“Niczego nie rozumiesz, a niewiele czujesz. Nie będę próbował ci tego tłumaczyć, bo zrozumienie jest ponad twoje możliwości. Trzymasz się kurczowo tego, co zapisano w księgach, lecz przecież w księgach nie zapisano wszystkiego. Każdy pomijał to, co mu było niewygodne, lub palił księgę, uznaną przez siebie za heretycką, choć dla innych była księgą świętą. Ludzie są omylni i słabi.”
― Dorota Terakowska, Samotność bogów

“Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, In the Forests of Serre

“...you don't really become a finer person just by reading lots of books.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

“When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.”
― Stanislaw Lem

“If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“Who are you then?"
"I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds other life—another hunter, an angel or a demon, a delicate infant or a tottering old man, a fairy or a demigod—there’s only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them. In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out. This is the picture of cosmic civilization. It’s the explanation for the Fermi Paradox.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

“Zło zawsze czai się blisko, na wyciągnięcie ręki. Nie sposób się z nim układać, oswajać go ani zmieniać. Kto wpatruje się w lustro, zobaczy oblicze diabła. Tylko często nie potrafi tego zauważyć, bo rozpoznaje w nim jedynie własne rysy.”
― Maja Lidia Kossakowska