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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“أخشى فى قمة الحب من الفقد”
― بهاء طاهر, الحب في المنفى

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot