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Haruki Murakami quote: "two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when..."
two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes Haruki Murakami
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little..."
I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove. Vincent Van Gogh
Paulo Coelho quote: "It is said that all people who are happy have God within them."
It is said that all people who are happy have God within them. Paulo Coelho
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level. George Orwell
Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in peace. She flecks her whip upon flesh that is more alive, upon that stream of hungry boys and girls who tramp the streets of every city, recognizable by their pride and discontent, who are the Future, and who possess the treasure of creative power. Willa Cather
Diane Ackerman quote: "Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people."
Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people. Diane Ackerman
Our starting point is not the individual: We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked? Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world. Joseph Goebbels
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was... Isabel Allende
Margaret Truman quote: "I love books. I really, really love them. There's something..."
I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together Margaret Truman
You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. L. Frank Baum
Jimmy Durante quote: "Be nice to people on your way up becuase you meet them on your..."
Be nice to people on your way up becuase you meet them on your way down Jimmy Durante
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it -- or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it. Dodie Smith
If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once. But, of course, when people say, 'Sex is nothing to be ashamed of,' they may mean 'the state into which the sexual instinct has now got is nothing to be ashamed of'. If they mean that, I think they are wrong. I think it is everything to be ashamed of. There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives... C. S. Lewis
Peter De Vries quote: "What people believe is a measure of what they suffer."
What people believe is a measure of what they suffer. Peter De Vries
Wendell Berry quote: "If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some..."
If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be? Wendell Berry

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