“When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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“Sacrifice! What do I sacrifice? Famine for food, expectation for content. To be privileged to put my arms round what I value—to press my lips to what I love—to repose on what I trust: is that to make a sacrifice? If so, then certainly I...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Then, my good friend, I said, do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”

― Plato, The Republic

“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck you' right under your nose. Try it sometime.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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