“Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.”
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“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
“But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
“Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
“Be careful of love. It’ll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
“It’s strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”