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Gabriel García Márquez
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
Gabriel García Márquez

Dorothy L. Sayers
“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

Gabriel García Márquez
“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
Rumi

Richard Halliburton
“Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.”
Richard Halliburton

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Mostafa...
13 books | 52 friends

Subrina...
11 books | 170 friends

Zaid Ahmed
0 books | 98 friends

Sanaa
197 books | 69 friends

Nusrat
0 books | 122 friends

Maymuna...
11 books | 39 friends

Asad Ra...
1 book | 33 friends

Vishnu V
89 books | 168 friends




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