Brief Quotes

Sometimes, the shortest utterances are the most powerful. A project by Book Mania!

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One should never underestimate the power of books.

Paul Auster

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There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.

John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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Live to the point of tears.

Albert Camus, Notebooks

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Evil, as she saw it, need not be committed only by demonic monsters but—with disastrous effect—by morons and imbeciles as well, especially if, as we see in our own day, their deeds are sanctioned by religious authority.

Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem - A Report on the Banality of Evil

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Find out what you’re afraid of the most and go live there.

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts

Albert Einstein

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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Kahlil Gibran

[bookmania]

Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.

Virginia Woolf

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Her words, so powerful!

(via bookmania)

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If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that would be unacceptable.

Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

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I am very much in love with no one in particular.

Ezra Miller

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Love her, but leave her wild.

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters

Seneca

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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

George Elliot, Adam Bede

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No matter what you do, some people are not going to be happy about it — True wisdom begins when we accept things as they are.

Tenzin, The Legend of Korra

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'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all

Emily Dickinson, ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five