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-It is in the nights of December, when the thermometer is at zero, when we most think about the sun.-The Miserables by Victor Hugo.
-The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and to mention them you had to point your finger at them.-One hundred years of loneliness by Gabriel García Marquez.
-It's never too late to be wise.-Robinson crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
-Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we lose.-The curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
-We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.-Lady Windermere's fan by Oscar Wilde.
-How wonderful it is that no one needs a single moment before starting to improve the world.-Ana Frank's diary.
-There's a reason all things are the way they are.- Dracula by Bram Stroker.
-It is human nature to falter when dreams begin to materialize.-The year of the flood by Eduardo Mendoza.
-Man goes much further to avoid what he fears than to achieve what he wants.-The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
-Men are made; the mountains are already made.-The way by Miguel Delibes.
-Not all who wander are lost.-The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien.
-The creatures outside looked from pig to man and man to pig again; but it was impossible to say which was which.-Rebelion on the farm by George Orwell.
-Be a man or be more than a man. Be firm with your purpose and firm as a stone.-Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
-I don't know what can come of it, but whatever it is, I'll go towards it laughing.-Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
-Only after we have lost everything are we free to do anything.-Fight club by Chuck Palahniuk.
-I can't go back because then I was a different person.-Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
-If you seek perfection you will never be happy.-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
-It is better to look at the sky than to live there.-Breakfast with diamonds by Truman Capote.
-Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.-Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates.
-Don't panic.-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
-Others will write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart always understands him.-The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories by Washington Irving.
-Only a man who has felt the utmost despair is capable of the utmost happiness. It is necessary to have wanted to die to know how good it is to live.-The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
-The reasonable man adapts to the world: the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.-Man and superman by George Bernad Shaw.
-There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they do for themselves.-Emma by Jane Austen.
-When we love, we always strive to be better than we are. When we strive to be better than we are, everything around us becomes better..-The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
-The possibilities, the changes are all yours to do. The mold of his life in his hands is to break.-The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.
-I have no idea what to expect, or what will happen when this is all over. At the moment I know this: there are sick people and I need to cure them.-The plague by Albert Camus.
-While the heart beats, while the body and soul remain together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with will has a need to lose hope in life..-Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne.
-Every time a book changes hands, every time someone lowers their eyes to the pages, their spirit grows and strengthens.-The wind's shadow by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
-The sun is weak when it rises first, and gains strength and courage as the day progresses.-Old curio shop by Charles Dickens.
-Getting what you want is as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it, instead of figuring out what to do without it..-The realm of possibility by David Levithan.
-Few castaways can say that they have survived as much at sea as Mr. Patel, and no one in the company of an adult bengal tiger.-The life of Pi by Yann Martel.
-Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are married forever.-Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
-I feel like I'm moving forward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.-American psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
-I am not a bird and no net catches me. I am a free human being with an independent will.-Jane eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
-Talk nonsense is the only privilege that humanity has over other organisms. It is by speaking nonsense that one comes to the truth. I speak nonsense, therefore I am human.-Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
-When you feel like criticizing someone, remember that not everyone has had the same opportunities that you had..-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
-Memories warm you from within. But they also tear you apart.-Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami.
-When someone leaves, it's because someone else is coming.-The Zahir by Paulo Coelho.
-Power resides where men think it resides, no more, no less.-A Clash of Kings (Book 2) by George R.R. Martin.
-To define is to limit.-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
-Seems weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.-The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
-Nothing worthwhile is easy.-Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks.
-Above all, don't lie to yourself.-The Karamazov brothers by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
-I'm so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word I'm saying.-The happy prince and other stories by Oscar Wilde.
-Without music, life would be a mistake.-The dusk of the idols by Friedrich Nietzsche.
-Carrying a gun is inviting the other to shoot you.-Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
-The books the world calls immoral are the ones that show the world its own shame.-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
-An interesting fact to reflect on is that human beings have been created to be a secret and a mystery to others..-The tale of two cities by Charles Dickens.
-Travel enough, you will find yourself.-Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
-If I get rid of my demons, I would lose my angels.-Conversations with Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams.
-Stop worrying about getting old and think about growing up.-The dying animal by Philip Roth.
-They were both pale and thin; but those pale faces were lit with the dawn of a new future.-Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
-You think you know all your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are many more.-The realm of possibility by David Levithan.
-Fight until the last breath.-Henry VI by William Shakespeare.
-If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.-The artificial elevator by Lemony Snicket.
-I have hope or I might not live.-The island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells.
-If you don't expect anything from anyone, you will never be disappointed.-The bell jar by Sylvia Plath.
-The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.-Sylvia Plath's full magazines.
-What a treacherous thing to think that a person is more than a person.-Paper Towns by John Green.
-I know who I was this morning when I woke up, but I think I have had to change several times since then..-Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
-When you hurt people, they start to love you less. That's what sloppy words do. They make people love you a little less.-The god of little things by Arundhati Roy.
-We tell ourselves stories to live.-The White Album by Joan Didion.
-Many things are possible as long as you do not know that they are impossible.-The magic house by Norton Juster.
-When you're scared but you do it anyway, that's bravery.-Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
-We must be careful with books and what is inside them, since words have the power to change us.-The Mechanical Angel by Cassandra Clare.
-My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.-David copperfield by Charles Dickens.
-No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.-This is my life by Eleanor Roosevelt.
-It is the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.-The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
-If people just love each other just a little, they can be very happy..-Germinal by Émile Zola.
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not..-Autumn leaves by André Gide.
-None of us really change over time. We only become more fully what we are.-Prince Lestat by Anne Rice.
- Yes, I am a dreamer. A dreamer is one who can only find his way in the light of the moon, and his punishment is that he sees the sunrise before the rest of the world..-The Critic as an Artist by Oscar Wilde.
-Dream. Sometimes I think it's the only right thing.-Sputnik, my love by Haruki Murakami.
-There is no greater agony than carrying an untold story within you.-I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou.
-Sometimes it is an appropriate response to reality to go crazy.-Valis by Philip K. Dick.
-Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.-Flange by Paulo Coelho.
-Art allows us to find and lose ourselves at the same time.-Men are not islands by Thomas Merton.
-Someday I'll find the right words, and they'll be simple.-The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac.
-The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.-The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore.
-Darkness cannot bring you out of darkness, only light can do that. Hate can't extinguish hate, only love can do that.-A testament of peace by Martin Luther King Jr.
-The person, be it a gentleman or a lady, who takes no pleasure in reading a good novel must be intolerably stupid.-Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.
-Fairy tales are more than the truth. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they teach us that dragons can be defeated.-Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
-I don't know which is worse: not knowing what you are and being happy or becoming what you always wanted to be and feeling alone.-Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.
-There is no shame in being afraid, my father taught me; the important thing is how we deal with it.-A Clash of Kings (Book 2) by George R.R. Martin.
-After all, tomorrow is a new day.-gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
-It is possible to make a dream come true that makes life more interesting.-Paulo Cohelo, The Alchemist.
-All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know at the time.-The five people you will meet in heaven by Mitch Albom.
-The true voyage of discovery is not about looking for new landscapes, but about having new eyes.-In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.
-I call people "rich" when they are able to satisfy the needs of their imagination..-The portrait of a lady by Henry James.
-You never know what bad luck has saved you from worse luck.-No country for old men by Cormac Mccarthy.
-The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, because only then can he feel the madness of despair.-The white company by Arthur Conan Doyle.
-The mind makes its own place, and in itself it can make a heaven from hell, and a hell from heaven..-Lost paradise by John Milton.
-Fear doesn't stop you; wakes you up.-Divergent by Veronica Roth.
-If you make mistakes, it means that you are doing something.-Make good art by Neil Gaiman.
-You need to laugh at things to keep your balance.- Some one flies over the cuco's nidus by Ken Kesey.
-Not judging is a reason for infinite hope.-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
-Suddenly, he discovered the error in his attitude. He realized that the guilt of the past was setting him up.-The Godfather by Mario Puzo.
-It all comes down to: die or adapt.-American psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
-It is not necessary to stop in dreams and forget to live.-harry potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling.
-Take care of life or take care of dying.-Life imprisonment by Stephen King.
-The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to experience.-Dune by Frank Herbert.
-Life changes fast. Life changes in an instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.-The year of magical thinking by Joan Didion.
-What is life? It is the glow of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in winter. It is the brief shadow that crosses the grass and is lost in the sunset.- Cold-blooded by Truman Capote.
-Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers, and how one remembers it to tell it.-Live to tell by Gabriel García Márquez.
-We strive to give life a meaning, a form, an order, and in the end, life does whatever it wants with one..-Homeland by Fernando Aramburu.
-Life would be so much more pleasant if one could take the tastes and smells of the mother's home with them wherever they go..-Like water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel.
-Noticing small changes right away helps you adapt to bigger changes to come.-Who has taken my cheese? by Spencer Johnson.
-Only the tears of true feelings will free you from your armor.-The knight in the rusty armor by Robert Fisher.
-To live is to experience. And not keep thinking about the meaning of life.-Alehp by Paulo Coelho.
-When you want to change your circumstances, you must first change your thoughts.-Rhonda Byrne's secret.
-I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am life.-The power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
-When you want something, the whole universe conspires to make your wish come true.-The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
-If you learn the lessons of life, you will do well. If not, life will just keep pushing you.-Rich father poor father by Robert Kiyosaki.
-Take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the doors of synchronicity open.-The Path of the Artist by Julia Cameron.
-Nothing is perfect, nor final, nor permanent in this world. As soon as we are tempted to believe that yes, we will probably have to prepare ourselves to have a disappointment..-Make it work by David Allen.
-The secret is to stop seeing yourself as a prisoner of a limited body, break the chains of your thought and you will also break those of your body.-Juan Salvador Gaviota by Richard Bach.
-And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.-The advantages of being invisible by Stephen Chbosky.
-There are so many ways to be brave in this world.-Loyal by Verónica Roth.
-Too much sincerity makes you look fake.-Chronicles of the Assassin of Kings by Patrick Rothfuss.
-Some roads you have to travel alone.-The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins.
-That is the problem of pain. It demands to be felt.-Under the same star as John Green.
-The thoughts left scars deeper than anything else.-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling.
-Older people can never understand something on their own and it is very boring for children to have to explain them over and over again.-The little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
-It is our choices that show who we really are, much more than our abilities.-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling.
-Never trust something it can think of for itself if you can't see where its brain keeps.-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling.
-There are books whose backs and covers are by far the best part.-Oliver twist by Charles Dickens.
-If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.-The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.
-Some infinities are larger than other infinities.-Under the same star by John Green.
-I solemnly swear that my intentions are not good.-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling.
-It takes a lot of courage to face our enemies, but it takes a lot more to face friends.-harry potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling.
-If you want to know how a man is, see how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling.
-People find it much easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right.-The half-blood prince by J.K. Rowling.
-Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, only if you remember to turn on the light.-The prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling.
-You could shake the stars. You could do anything, if you just dare. And deep down, you know it too, and that's what scares you the most.-Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas.
-Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.-Eragon by Christopher Paolini.
-I'm done with them; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.-A unique story by Ned Vizzini.
-Becoming brave is not the goal. That's impossible. It is about learning how to control your fear and how to free yourself from it..-Divergent by Verónica Roth.
-The universe is bigger than anything that can fit your mind.-Love letters to the dead by Ava Dellaira.
-Love is the longing of the half of ourselves that we've lost.-The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.
-Love those you love while you have them. That is all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you will never escape.-My name is memory by Ann Brashares.
- Love is poison, a sweet poison yes; but it will kill you anyway.-A Clash of Kings (Book 2) by George R.R. Martin.
-I am what you have made of me. Take my praise, take my blame, take all the success, take the failure, in short, take me.-Big hopes by Charles Dickens.
-I look at you and a feeling of wonder invades me.-The odyssey from Homer.
-I was too young to know how to love her.-The little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
-There is nothing as mortifying as falling in love with someone who does not share your feelings..-Venetia by Georgette Heyer.
-The one you love and the one who loves you are never the same person.-Invisible monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.
-I will never leave you, even though you're always leaving me.-The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
-Love. The reason I dislike that word is because it means so much to me. Much more than you could understand.-Ana Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
-The reason it hurts so much to part is because our souls are connected.- Noah's notebook by Nicholas Sparks.
-I wish I knew how to leave you.-Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx.
-You should be kissed often and by someone who knows how to do it.-gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
-You can love someone a lot, but you can never love as much as you miss.-The Katherine Theorem by John Green.
-Cheating and lies are not problems. They are reasons to go our separate ways.-Between The Tides by Patti Callahan Henry.
-Is that, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be with you?-Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma.
-The heart dies slowly, shedding every hope like leaves, until one day there are none. Without hope. Nothing remains.-Memories of a Geisha by Chiyo Sakamoto.
-The heart suffers a painful death, casting off all hope until there is nothing left. No hope. Nothing remains.-Memories of a Geisha by Chiyo Sakamoto.
-When we accept love, we think we deserve it.-The advantages of being invisible by Stephen Chbosky.
-There is nothing I wouldn't do for the people who are my true friends. I don't love half, it's not in my nature.-Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.
-We are fools in love.-Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen.
-Who, being loved, is poor?-An unimportant woman by Oscar Wilde.
-Friendship is undoubtedly the best balm for the pains of love disappointment.-Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.
-Have you ever fallen in love? It's not horrible? It makes you so vulnerable. Open your chest and open your heart and it means that someone can enter you and undo you.-The benevolent by Neil Gaiman.
-Friendship is born the moment one man says to another “What !? You too? I thought that no one else besides me ... -The four loves by C. S. Lewis.
-We are all that we have left. We have to be able to stay united, whatever happens. If we don't have each other, we have nothing.-Rebels by S.E. Hinton.
-And for an instant, we looked into each other's eyes and saw some of the true things that made us friends..-The body by Stephen King.
-Friendship is everything. Friendship is worth more than talent. Worth more than the government. Friendship is worth almost as much as the family. Never forget.-The Godfather by Mario Puzo.
-Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.-The digital fortress by Dan Brown.
-The older you get, the less easy it is to put those thoughts into practice, perhaps because it all gets stuck in your head and becomes a burden..-Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote.
-It gives me the impression that we are always looking for something that satisfies us, and we never find it.-Rebels by S.E. Hinton
-The end comes to all of us; I know there are no exceptions. However, my God, sometimes death row seems so long ... -Death hall by Stephen King.
-She remembered the past as a succession of violence, abandonment and sadness and she was not sure that things had been as she thought.-The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende.
-He understood that the perfect gift was just that: the present.-The perfect present by Spencer Johnson.
-Happiness is only real when it's shared.-Towards wild routes by Jon Krakauer.
-The future is still full of joys and sorrows. Happiness is possible!.-The scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
-Let's not let hate make our lives bitter.-Homeland by Fernando Aramburu.
-Pursue your happiness and have no fear, and doors will open where you least suspect it.-The power of myth by Joseph Campbell
-Happiness ends the moment it begins to manifest. […] Total, you never get.-Lady in red on gray background by Miguel Delibes.
-As long as I live in the present I will be happy forever, because eternity is concentrated on him.-The perfect present by Spencer Johnson.
-Get busy living or get busy dying.-Shawshank's redemption by Stephen King.
-Death tears man apart: the idea of death saved himto.-Howards End by E. M. Forster.
-I can't die yet doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. After all, I'll have a whole life to die in.-The game of the angel by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
-For an organized mind, death is but another great adventure.-harry potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling.
-I don't want to die without scars.-Fight club by Chuck Palahniuk.
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