“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.”

― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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“It's true that a drinker numbs his senses, it's true that he briefly escapes and rests, but he'll return from the delusion, finds everything to be unchanged, has not become wiser, has gathered no enlightenment,—has not risen several steps.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

“Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth, unapt to toil and trouble in the world, but that our soft conditions and our hearts should well agree with our external parts?”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“A bruise is a lesson . . . and each lesson makes us better.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had willingly abandoned those places in which she would at least have been able to see him whom she loved, for others where he had never trod.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“People are like lice—they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can’t get permanently deloused.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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