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“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year. I feel I know you so well that I couldn't have known you better if we'd been friends for twenty years. You won't fail me, will you? Only two minutes, and you've made me happy forever. Yes, happy. Who knows, perhaps you've reconciled me with myself, resolved all my doubts.

When I woke up it seemed to me that some snatch of a tune I had known for a long time, I had heard somewhere before but had forgotten, a melody of great sweetness, was coming back to me now. It seemed to me that it had been trying to emerge from my soul all my life, and only now-

If and when you fall in love, may you be happy with her. I don't need to wish her anything, for she'll be happy with you. May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Лежаћу по цео дан у трави и гледаћу у небо. Сваки дан ће имати нову боју. И те боје умириће моје очи, а ја сам сав миран, кад ми се смире очи.”
― Miloš Crnjanski, Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”
― Kurt Cobain

“There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Rather be dead then cool”
― Kurt Cobain

“Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.”
― Kurt Cobain

“If it's illegal to rock and roll, then throw my ass in jail.”
― Kurt Cobain

“I’m worse at what I do best.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
― Bob Marley

“Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.”
― Bob Marley

“Wake up and live”
― Bob Marley

“Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. ”
― Hermann Hesse

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

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

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind