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“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“One must be cunning and wicked in this world.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey”
― Karl Pilkington, The Ricky Gervais Show - First, Second and Third Seasons

“Stay green, stay in the woods, and stay safe.”
― Karl Pilkington

“They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.”
― Karl Pilkington, The Ricky Gervais Show - First, Second and Third Seasons

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat the possibilites as probabilities.”
― Charles Dickens

“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing else, or doing nothing better, which was so graceful, so natural & agreeable”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“the sight of me is good for sore eyes”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.”
― Stephen Fry

“Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

“Compromise is a stalling between two fools.”
― Stephen Fry

“If you have been, I'm glad you've stopped.”
― Stephen Fry

“Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, A Hidden Fire

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

“Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”
― Franz Kafka

“Love is a drama of contradictions.”
― Franz Kafka

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust