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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“We are the granddaughters of the witches you weren't able to burn.”
― Tish Thawer, The Witches of BlackBrook

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”
― Anton Chekhov

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
― Banksy

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”
― Socrates

“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.”
― Bob Dylan

“Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.”
― Albert Einstein

“My weapon is literature
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― Chinua Achebe

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
― Maya Angelou

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes

“Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
― Emily Dickinson

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

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Nothing eases suffering like human touch.”
― Bobby Fischer, Chess Meets of the Century

“He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.”
― Swedish Proverb

“Write drunk; edit sober.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

“Han længes efter sensationer og stadionrock, mens hans liv føles som en lang popsang.”
― Stine Pilgaard

“[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.”
― Christine de Pizan, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc

“You can't carry the world on yer shoulders, broad as they are.”
― Jana Oliver, Forbidden

“Poor man! You have many burdens on you: The burdens of your religion, of your culture, of your ignorance, of your oppressive government! Find a wild horse and watch it! You will see what is to be unburdened and free!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan