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“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Here I opened wide the door;— Darkness there, and nothing more.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“Χάρτινα συναισθήματα σ' έναν κόσμο αιχμηρό, αναζητάς ελπίδες, κοφτερές λεπίδες.”
― Λάμπρος Καντίλας

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― Stephen King , The Stand

“And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall though I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without ever beholding day.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Αυτή η μουσική θα με σκοτώσει μια μέρα, στραγγίζοντας τη ζωή μου λίγο λίγο με το σαξόφωνο...”
― Lilly Spantidaki, Ο Διάβολος τραγουδούσε τα μπλουζ

“Η φωνή της ήταν απίστευτη, ήταν σαν πικρή σοκολάτα.”
― Lilly Spantidaki, Ο Διάβολος τραγουδούσε τα μπλουζ

“Τραγουδούσε κι ένιωθε την ψυχή του να βγαίνει με κάθε του εκπνοή.”
― Lilly Spantidaki, Ο Διάβολος τραγουδούσε τα μπλουζ

“Μετά από μια ορισμένη ηλικία, όλοι είμαστε υπεύθυνοι για τα μούτρα μας.”
― Albert Camus

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain

“It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates