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“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.”
― Gaius Julius Caesar

“I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“Тоз, който падне в бой за свобода, той не умира”
― Христо Ботев, Поезия. Публицистика

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Men of the Otherworld

“What am I? Let's just say I won't fetch a stick for you. I won't beg for treats. And, no matter how nicely you ask, I will not roll over and play dead.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Living with the Dead

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
― Albert Einstein

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
― Albert Einstein