“learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“And he sang to them, now in the elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together...”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“It is the hour of the pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”

― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Let us gather together in the great cities, and light huge bonfires of a million gas-jets, and shout and sing together, and feel brave.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“You’re bound to get idears if you go thinkin’ about stuff.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“She was dazzling—alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“For nothing in the world is it worth turning one's back on what one loves.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“some day I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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