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“You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. My God, Harry, how I worship her!”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
― Charles Bukowski, Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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

“Τα βιβλία είναι καθρέφτες. Βλέπεις μέσα τους μόνο αυτά που ήδη έχεις μέσα σου.”
― Zafon Carlos Ruiz

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned that it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Όταν διαβάζει κανείς μόνο και μόνο για να περάσει την ώρα του είναι σα να σεργιανά με τα μάτια κλειστά σε ένα πανέμορφο τοπίο. Πέρα από αυτό όμως, το διάβασμα δεν είναι ούτε για να ξεχνιόμαστε ούτε για να ξεχνάμε την καθημερινότητα, αλλά για να αποκτήσουμε γνώση του εαυτού μας και να μπορέσουμε να πάρουμε οι ίδιοι στα χέρια μας την τύχη μας με αυξημένη συνείδηση και ωριμότητα.”
― Hermann Hesse

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

“-Πώς πήγε το σχολείο;
-Πολύ καλά. Έμαθα να μιλώ, να απαντώ, και να σκέπτομαι με συλλαβές.
-Τότε γιατί κλαις;
-Είναι οι συλλαβές. Πονάω, όταν κόβω τις λέξεις στη μέση.
-Θα συνηθίσεις, μου λέει η Φανή. Θα συνηθίσεις.

ΤΕΛΟΣ”
― Μαργαρίτα Καραπάνου, Kassandra and the Wolf

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

“God's only excuse is that he does not exist”
― Stendhal

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
― A.P. Chekhov

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“Turning I would to I did is the grammar of growing up.”
― Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno

“What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books.”
― David Bowie

“The great milestones of civilization always have the whiff of utopia about them at first. According to renowned sociologist Albert Hirschman, utopias are initially attacked on three grounds: futility (it’s not possible), danger (the risks are too great), and perversity (it will degenerate into dystopia). But Hirschman also wrote that almost as soon as a utopia becomes a reality, it often comes to be seen as utterly commonplace. Not so very long ago, democracy still seemed a glorious utopia. Many a great mind, from the philosopher Plato (427–347 B.C.) to the statesman Edmund Burke (1729–97), warned that democracy was futile (the masses were too foolish to handle it), dangerous (majority rule would be akin to playing with fire), and perverse (the “general interest” would soon be corrupted by the interests of some crafty general or other). Compare this with the arguments against basic income. It’s supposedly futile because we can’t pay for it, dangerous because people would quit working, and perverse because ultimately a minority would end up having to toil harder to support the majority.”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures