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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Ο Έλληνας, όταν βλέπει τον εαυτό του στον καθρέφτη, αντικρίζει είτε τον Μεγαλέξαντρο, είτε τον Κολοκοτρώνη, είτε (τουλάχιστον) τον Ωνάση. Ποτέ τον Καραγκιόζη...”
― Νίκος Δήμου, Η δυστυχία του να είσαι Έλληνας

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“I write because you exist.”
― Michael Faudet

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Persephone had it right.
If you must go, might as well
take all of spring with you—”
― Cathy Linh Che, Split

“Ούτε να πεθάνω θέλω ούτε και να γιατρευτώ
θέλω απλώς να βολευτώ στην καταστροφή μου.

Όταν τρελαίνομαι τις νύχτες για κορμί,
να βρίσκεται ένας άνθρωπος να με χορταίνει.

Όταν βουλιάζω σ' έυκολες εξάψεις,
να 'ρχεται μια εξευτέλιση να με συνεφέρνει.

Όταν βουρλίζομαι στα δρομολόγια του πάθους,
να 'χω ένα όραμα να με θαμπώνει.

Όταν εξαγριώνομαι για τρυφερότητα,
να βρίσκονται δυο χέρια για τον παιδεμό μου.

Μα πάνω στου σπασμού την αποθέωση,
που εκμηδενίζει κάθε άλλη ομορφιά,
να 'χω τη δύναμη να πω "Κύριε όχι άλλο" -
κόβοντας τις υπερωρίες της καταστροφής μου.”
― Ντίνος Χριστιανόπουλος, Βολέματα καταστροφής: 90 ποιήματα, 1949-1999

“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Love grows wildest in the gardens of hardship.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon Is Low

“Επιμένω σ' έναν άλλο κόσμο.
Τον έχω τόσο ονειρευτεί,
τόσο πολύ έχω σεργιανήσει μέσα του

που πια
είναι αδύνατο να μην υπάρχει.”
― Χρίστος Λάσκαρης, Απόγευμα προς βράδυ

“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves”
― Russell Banks

“...love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
― William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents