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A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
The past beats inside me like a second heart.
The VoiceThere is a voice inside of youThat whispers all day long,"I feel this is right for me,I know that this is wrong."No teacher, preacher, parent, friendOr wise man can decideWhat's right for you--just listen toThe voice that speaks inside.
It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.
if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING."They're not the same at all!"YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"MY POINT EXACTLY.
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love
World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.