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“My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.”
― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
― T.S. Eliot

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
― Anatole France

“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

“The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Your library is your paradise.”
― Desiderius Erasmus

“everything isn't everything”
― Shel Silverstein, Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back

“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares about, why she's angry at her father, and what sort of stories people tell about her. The second type of man -- and I am in this category -- can fall in love with a woman only if he knows next to nothing about her.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“ لكي اكتب جيدا، لا بد أولا أن اشعر بالملل حتى الجنون، ولكي اشعر بالملل حتى الجنون، لا بد أن ادخل في الحياة”
― أورهان باموق, Other Colors: Essays and A Story

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
― Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.”
― John Keats

“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”
― John Keats

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

“Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.”
― Slavoj Žižek

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

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Fallujah was a Guernica with no Picasso. A city of 300,000 was deprived of water, electricity, and food, emptied of most of its inhabitants who ended up parked in camps. Then came the methodical bombing and recapture of the city block by block. When soldiers occupied the hospital, The New York Times managed to justify this act on grounds that the hospital served as an enemy propaganda center by exaggerating the number of casualties. And by the way, just how many casualties were there? Nobody knows, there is no body count for Iraqis. When estimates are published, even by reputable scientific reviews, they are denounced as exaggerated. Finally, the inhabitants were allowed to return to their devastated city, by way of military checkpoints, and start to sift through the rubble, under the watchful eye of soldiers and biometric controls.”
― Jean Bricmont, Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War