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“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
― J.K Rowling

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Il n'y avait pas d'amour heureux....
À l'exception de ceux que notre mémoire cultive.
À jamais, pour toujours,
Laurenç”
― Michel Bussi, Les Nymphéas noirs

“Quelqu'un que l'on aime, que l'on aime vraiment, faut parfois oser le laisser partir loin. Ou savoir l'attendre longtemps. C'est une vraie preuve d'amour, la seule, peut-être.”
― Michel Bussi, Maman a tort

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

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Aimer est une aventure sans carte et sans compas où seule la prudence égare.”
― Romain Gary, Clair de femme

“Oublier les morts, c'était un peu comme les tuer une seconde fois.”
― Christelle Dabos, Les Fiancés de l'hiver

“Have you no more memories?"
I am made of memories.
"Speak, then.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“On dispose de tout ce qu'il faut lorsque l'on organise sa vie autour e l'idée de ne rien posséder.”
― Sylvain Tesson, Dans les forêts de Sibérie

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it was not me.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
― Montaigne, Les Essais

“Touch has a memory.”
― John Keats

“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."

[Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]”
― Salman Rushdie

“You have my soul and I have your money”
― Charles Bukowski

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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

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