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1,830 | “Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.” | famous_quote |
2,155 | “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.” | famous_quote |
1,304 | “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.” | famous_quote |
1,134 | “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.” | famous_quote |
2,183 | “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” | famous_quote |
361 | “Whatever you are, be a good one.” | famous_quote |
2,176 | “You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron."What did you have to imitate her for?""She laughed at my mustache!""So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.” | famous_quote |
1,899 | “You can make anything by writing.” | famous_quote |
1,284 | “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” | famous_quote |
514 | “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” | famous_quote |
448 | “There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.” | famous_quote |
1,923 | “Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.” | famous_quote |
1,506 | “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” | famous_quote |
1,247 | “It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!â€�It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.” | famous_quote |
1,855 | “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.” | famous_quote |
873 | “How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.” | famous_quote |
1,428 | “Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.” | famous_quote |
2,349 | “There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.” | famous_quote |
2,278 | “All thinking men are atheists.” | famous_quote |
1,754 | “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” | famous_quote |
922 | “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” | famous_quote |
2,159 | “If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?” | famous_quote |
1,036 | “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” | famous_quote |
1,416 | “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” | famous_quote |
2,281 | “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?” | famous_quote |
313 | “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” | famous_quote |
2,256 | “There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.” | famous_quote |
1,997 | “Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.” | famous_quote |
1,037 | “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” | famous_quote |
1,656 | “When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.” | famous_quote |
1,778 | “By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.” | famous_quote |
1,014 | “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” | famous_quote |
1,093 | “And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.” | famous_quote |
1,124 | “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.” | famous_quote |
697 | “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.” | famous_quote |
2,179 | “We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.” | famous_quote |
1,404 | “It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.” | famous_quote |
1,155 | “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.” | famous_quote |
1,043 | “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ” | famous_quote |
1,929 | “Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.” | famous_quote |
1,013 | “How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley.George's fingers groped for the side of his head."Saintlike," he murmured."What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?""Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?” | famous_quote |
226 | “Jesus!" Luke exclaimed."Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.” | famous_quote |
1,828 | “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” | famous_quote |
1,492 | “Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” | famous_quote |
821 | “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.” | famous_quote |
2,023 | “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” | famous_quote |
870 | “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” | famous_quote |
2,452 | “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” | famous_quote |
2,249 | “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.” | famous_quote |
2,085 | “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” | famous_quote |
1,795 | “I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!” | famous_quote |
187 | “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” | famous_quote |
1,080 | “If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?” | famous_quote |
940 | “People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.” | famous_quote |
2,320 | “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.” | famous_quote |
525 | “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” | famous_quote |
335 | “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?""Yes.""You called her a liar?""Yes.""You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?""Yes.""Have a biscuit, Potter.” | famous_quote |
1,078 | “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.” | famous_quote |
161 | “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” | famous_quote |
593 | “Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?""No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.” | famous_quote |
1,938 | “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...” | famous_quote |
2,206 | “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart” | famous_quote |
59 | “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” | famous_quote |
1,901 | “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” | famous_quote |
2,258 | “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” | famous_quote |
405 | “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” | famous_quote |
663 | “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” | famous_quote |
1,132 | “That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.” | famous_quote |
1,099 | “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.” | famous_quote |
541 | “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” | famous_quote |
1,337 | “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” | famous_quote |
997 | “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” | famous_quote |
1,140 | “If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?” | famous_quote |
867 | “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” | famous_quote |
2,066 | “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.” | famous_quote |
431 | “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” | famous_quote |
739 | “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” | famous_quote |
1,373 | “you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” | famous_quote |
182 | “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” | 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 |
1,206 | “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” | famous_quote |
1,169 | “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC” | famous_quote |
830 | “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.” | famous_quote |
1,651 | “Dreams like a podcast,Downloading truth in my ears.They tell me cool stuff.""Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred.""A god named Fred?” | famous_quote |
1,136 | “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.” | famous_quote |
475 | “Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace."It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.""As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," said Simon."I knew we should have left you a rat.” | famous_quote |
1,326 | “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” | famous_quote |
970 | “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” | famous_quote |
1,019 | “The more I see, the less I know for sure.” | famous_quote |
1,141 | “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” | famous_quote |
1,836 | “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” | famous_quote |
160 | “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” | famous_quote |
2,448 | “I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.” | famous_quote |
197 | “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” | famous_quote |
1,283 | “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.” | famous_quote |
659 | “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.” | famous_quote |
1,775 | “Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress."Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say."It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks."Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say."Not if I keep looking at you," he says.” | famous_quote |
1,070 | “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” | famous_quote |
2,010 | “There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...” | famous_quote |
398 | “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” | famous_quote |
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