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  • #1
    Henry James
    “What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
    Henry James, The art of fiction

  • #2
    Pär Lagerkvist
    “Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.”
    Pär Lagerkvist, The Sibyl

  • #3
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.”
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  • #4
    Boris Pasternak
    “You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.”
    Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

  • #5
    Andy Andrews
    “Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.”
    Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

  • #6
    Andy Andrews
    “When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.”
    Andy Andrews

  • #7
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #8
    Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov
    “Я ничeгo oт тeбя нe тpeбyю, и я пoмoгy тeбe. Paди тeбя caмoro, paди твoeгo coбcтвeннoгo дocтoинcтвa и пpeвocxoдcтвa и paди мoeй чиcтoй, бecкopыcтнoй любви к тeбe — я пoмoгy тeбe. Пpими дyx мoй. Kaк пpeждe мoй дyx poдил тeбя в кpacome, тaк тeпepь oн poждaeт тeбя в cилe”
    Vladimir S. Soloviev , Tale of the Anti-Christ

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #12
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #13
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #16
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #17
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #18
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #19
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #20
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

  • #21
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #22
    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    Nikolai V. Gogol

  • #23
    Nadezhda Mandelstam
    “I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
    Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

  • #24
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #25
    Anna Akhmatova
    “If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
    Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

  • #26
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #27
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights



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