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“يموت الحي شيئاً فشيئا؛ وحين لا يبقى فيه ما يموت، يُقال: مات”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, كلمة وكليمة

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

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

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

“Many introverts don't feel as if they know enough about a subject until they know almost everything.”
― Marti Olsen Laney, The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World

“The introvert is pressured daily, almost from the moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world.”
― Marti Olsen Laney, The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World

“The second difference between the introvert and the extrovert is how they experience external stimulation. Extroverts like to experience a lot, and introverts like to know a lot about what they experience.”
― Marti Olsen Laney, The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World

“For introverts who have a high level of internal activity, anything coming from the outside raises their intensity level index quickly. It’s kind of like being tickled—the sensation goes from feeling good and fun to “too much” and uncomfortable in a split second.”
― Marti Olsen Laney, The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“You can't lie to your soul.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
― Tuli Kupferberg

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”
― Lee Child, 61 Hours

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
― George Gissing

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès