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“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”
― Voltaire

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.”
― Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

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

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
― Gautama Buddha

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly.”
― Rose Franken

“I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.”
― Natalie Portman

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
― Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes

“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye