Quotes from books
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Religion is the opiate of the masses.
I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
My precious.
I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
I like too many things and get all confused and hung up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
The world is full of people running.
No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.