“Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“Every one has friends who were killed in the War. Every one gives up something when they marry.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, History

“There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lay defeat and death.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”

― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Man usually believes, if only words he hears, that also with them goes material for thinking!”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“Books, for me, used to be a way to escape. I now consider reading a good book a sacred indulgence, a chance to be any place I choose. It is my absolute favorite way to spend time.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep—into the evil.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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