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1,674 | “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.” | famous_quote |
435 | “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.” | famous_quote |
398 | “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” | famous_quote |
1,234 | “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” | famous_quote |
1,414 | “Dogs never bite me. Just humans.” | famous_quote |
562 | “I cannot live without books.” | famous_quote |
2,489 | “It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.” | famous_quote |
1,284 | “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” | famous_quote |
772 | “My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.” | famous_quote |
2,397 | “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” | famous_quote |
2,037 | “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” | famous_quote |
1,343 | “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” | famous_quote |
2,185 | “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” | famous_quote |
1,573 | “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” | famous_quote |
991 | “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” | famous_quote |
2,415 | “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” | famous_quote |
1,246 | “You speak an infinite deal of nothing.” | famous_quote |
359 | “Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.""Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered."Selling them on what?"Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.” | famous_quote |
920 | “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” | famous_quote |
2,376 | “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” | famous_quote |
962 | “To define is to limit.” | famous_quote |
1,827 | “Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.” | famous_quote |
1,613 | “Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.” | famous_quote |
1,640 | “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” | famous_quote |
2,216 | “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” | famous_quote |
216 | “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” | famous_quote |
377 | “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” | famous_quote |
118 | “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” | famous_quote |
189 | “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.” | famous_quote |
369 | “If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.” | famous_quote |
1,801 | “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” | famous_quote |
2,196 | “Freedom lies in being bold.” | famous_quote |
651 | “I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.” | famous_quote |
1,882 | “One wordFrees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love.” | famous_quote |
1,511 | “Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” | famous_quote |
769 | “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” | famous_quote |
2,421 | “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.” | famous_quote |
780 | “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” | famous_quote |
1,716 | “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.” | famous_quote |
2,207 | “I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seenOf meadow flowers and butterfliesIn summers that have beenOf yellow leaves and gossamerIn autumns that there wereWith morning mist and silver sunAnd wind upon my hairI sit beside the fire and thinkOf how the world will beWhen winter comes without a spring That I shall ever seeFor still there are so many thingsThat I have never seenIn every wood in every springThere is a different greenI sit beside the fire and thinkOf people long agoAnd people that will see a worldThat I shall never knowBut all the while I sit and thinkOf times there were beforeI listen for returning feet And voices at the door” | famous_quote |
2,398 | “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” | famous_quote |
1,311 | “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” | famous_quote |
1,249 | “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal” | famous_quote |
522 | “I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what’s her name?" says Caesar.Peeta sighs. "Well, there is this one girl. I’ve had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I’m pretty sure she didn’t know I was alive until the reaping."Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.She have another fellow?" asks Caesar.I don’t know, but a lot of boys like her," says Peeta.So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly.I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning...won’t help in my case," says Peeta.Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified.Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "Because...because...she came here with me.” | famous_quote |
521 | “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.” | famous_quote |
782 | “Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?” | famous_quote |
2,320 | “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.” | famous_quote |
935 | “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” | famous_quote |
2,230 | “Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.” | famous_quote |
1,688 | “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...” | famous_quote |
487 | “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” | famous_quote |
1,850 | “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” | famous_quote |
845 | “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” | famous_quote |
2,171 | “Did you really want to die?""No one commits suicide because they want to die.""Then why do they do it?""Because they want to stop the pain.” | famous_quote |
2,461 | “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.” | famous_quote |
2,003 | “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” | famous_quote |
1,748 | “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut” | famous_quote |
685 | “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” | famous_quote |
2,160 | “there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.” | famous_quote |
2,169 | “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” | famous_quote |
1,567 | “Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.” | famous_quote |
1,245 | “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” | famous_quote |
38 | “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” | famous_quote |
779 | “When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.” | famous_quote |
1,256 | “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” | famous_quote |
2,196 | “Freedom lies in being bold.” | famous_quote |
1,927 | “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” | famous_quote |
301 | “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” | famous_quote |
2,285 | “A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.” | famous_quote |
646 | “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” | famous_quote |
662 | “You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers."Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.” | famous_quote |
2,283 | “The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.” | famous_quote |
1,759 | “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” | famous_quote |
2,250 | “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” | famous_quote |
255 | “The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.” | famous_quote |
597 | “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” | famous_quote |
661 | “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!” | famous_quote |
234 | “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.” | famous_quote |
1,368 | “I'm not young enough to know everything.” | famous_quote |
769 | “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” | famous_quote |
212 | “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” | famous_quote |
462 | “I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.” | famous_quote |
2,483 | “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?” | famous_quote |
282 | “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” | famous_quote |
1,486 | “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” | famous_quote |
1,430 | “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” | famous_quote |
87 | “We read to know we're not alone.” | famous_quote |
1,067 | “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.” | famous_quote |
460 | “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.” | famous_quote |
2,325 | “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” | famous_quote |
2,468 | “I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.” | famous_quote |
1,724 | “It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green.""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.” | famous_quote |
1,376 | “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.” | famous_quote |
514 | “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” | famous_quote |
702 | “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” | famous_quote |
1,653 | “Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...” | famous_quote |
2,066 | “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.” | famous_quote |
22 | “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” | famous_quote |
2,460 | “Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.” | famous_quote |
1,053 | “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” | famous_quote |
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