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1,757 | “A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.” | famous_quote |
2,050 | “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” | famous_quote |
989 | “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” | famous_quote |
1,541 | “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” | famous_quote |
1,116 | “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” | famous_quote |
492 | “I am not young enough to know everything.” | famous_quote |
619 | “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.” | famous_quote |
2,378 | “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” | famous_quote |
2,380 | “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” | famous_quote |
2,097 | “When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.” | famous_quote |
1,546 | “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” | famous_quote |
862 | “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” | famous_quote |
1,691 | “Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,” | famous_quote |
1,605 | “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” | famous_quote |
2,319 | “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” | famous_quote |
579 | “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” | famous_quote |
1,890 | “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.” | famous_quote |
1,275 | “Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!” | famous_quote |
1,855 | “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.” | famous_quote |
2,493 | “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.” | famous_quote |
1,355 | “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.” | famous_quote |
1,162 | “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” | famous_quote |
356 | “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.” | famous_quote |
1,624 | “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” | famous_quote |
2,321 | “Don't let the muggles get you down.” | famous_quote |
2,006 | “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” | famous_quote |
2,358 | “Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane” | famous_quote |
869 | “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” | famous_quote |
885 | “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” | famous_quote |
2,001 | “I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.” | famous_quote |
2,201 | “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.” | famous_quote |
1,413 | “The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.” | famous_quote |
1,283 | “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.” | famous_quote |
619 | “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.” | famous_quote |
882 | “Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students."Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.” | famous_quote |
796 | “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” | famous_quote |
2,172 | “The past is never where you think you left it.” | famous_quote |
1,296 | “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” | famous_quote |
618 | “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” | famous_quote |
1,834 | “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” | famous_quote |
244 | “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” | famous_quote |
2,497 | “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love” | famous_quote |
929 | “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” | famous_quote |
1,270 | “Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” | famous_quote |
519 | “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” | famous_quote |
2,409 | “I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.” | famous_quote |
7 | “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” | famous_quote |
2,019 | “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.” | famous_quote |
494 | “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” | famous_quote |
1,629 | “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” | famous_quote |
1,062 | “It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.” | famous_quote |
186 | “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” | famous_quote |
1,877 | “I must have loved you a lot.” | famous_quote |
2,140 | “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” | famous_quote |
85 | “You love me. Real or not real?"I tell him, "Real.” | famous_quote |
136 | “Do one thing every day that scares you.” | 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 |
2,121 | “If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.” | famous_quote |
1,636 | “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” | famous_quote |
2,218 | “Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.” | famous_quote |
1,751 | “Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.” | famous_quote |
2,217 | “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is achingâ€� than to say “My heart is broken.” | famous_quote |
1,787 | “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.” | famous_quote |
871 | “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” | famous_quote |
2,369 | “You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.” | famous_quote |
2,503 | “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.” | famous_quote |
943 | “Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.” | famous_quote |
1,626 | “Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” | famous_quote |
348 | “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” | famous_quote |
1,676 | “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.” | famous_quote |
1,196 | “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” | famous_quote |
9 | “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” | famous_quote |
1,461 | “When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” | famous_quote |
666 | “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.” | famous_quote |
1,522 | “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” | 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 |
600 | “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” | famous_quote |
326 | “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” | famous_quote |
979 | “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” | famous_quote |
2,451 | “We live as we dream--alone....” | famous_quote |
628 | “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” | famous_quote |
1,629 | “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” | famous_quote |
273 | “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” | famous_quote |
684 | “I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.” | famous_quote |
115 | “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” | famous_quote |
860 | “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” | famous_quote |
2,003 | “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” | famous_quote |
692 | “What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better.” | famous_quote |
1,105 | “Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly bored."In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations.""You invited him into bed?" Simon demanded, looking shaken."Ridiculous, isn't it?" said Jace. "We would never have all fit.""I didn't invite him into bed," Clary snapped. "We were just kissing.""Just kissing?" Jace's tone mocked her with its false hurt. "How swiftly you dismiss our love.” | famous_quote |
2,371 | “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” | famous_quote |
2,161 | “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” | famous_quote |
1,792 | “A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?” | famous_quote |
153 | “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” | famous_quote |
1,900 | “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” | famous_quote |
1,427 | “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” | famous_quote |
1,289 | “I am a cage, in search of a bird.” | famous_quote |
314 | “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” | famous_quote |
1,064 | “Life is to be enjoyed, not endured” | famous_quote |
104 | “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.” | famous_quote |
1,924 | “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.” | famous_quote |
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