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“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“Cherish your wilderness.”
― Maxine Kumin

“Смелостта е нещо относително. Във всяка жива твар е вложен инстинкта за самосъхранение. Той се проявява или като страх, или като смелост, зависи от обстоятелствата.”
― Елин Пелин, Аз, Ти, Той

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.”
― Booth Tarkington

“I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!”
― Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar

“Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine”
― Lawrence Durrell, Clea

“We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar

“Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar

“A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“War is not won by victory.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Ah, good conversation — there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence