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#1

“Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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#2

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

tags: books

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#3

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

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#4

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: books

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#5

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme

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#6

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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#7

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

tags: writing

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#8

“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

tags: life-questions

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#9

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

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#10

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: progress

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#11

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

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#12

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

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#13

“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
― René Char

tags: resistance, words

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#14

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

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#15

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

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#16

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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#17

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

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#18

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

tags: reading, words, writing

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#19

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

tags: life

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#20

“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
― Edward Bulwer Lytton

tags: music, power-of-music

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#21

“Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

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#22

“By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

tags: dead, mentally, physically

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#23

“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, home, homecoming, homelessness, roots

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#24

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books, reading, truth

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#25

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

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#26

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

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#27

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

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

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#28

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

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#29

“Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.”
― Celia Rees, Witch Child

tags: cure, harm, heal, kill, witch

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#30

“Ho un carattere ansioso, quindi mi preoccupo oltre misura per ogni più piccola cosa. Dal mio punto di vista, trovo però molto più strane le persone che vivono come se niente fosse in un mondo così poco sicuro”
― Takuji Ichikawa, Be With You 今会いにゆきます

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