"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss (I Can Read with My Eyes Shut)
"You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut."
— Dr. Seuss (I Can Read with My Eyes Shut)
“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
- Anne Frank, ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ Monday, 9 November 1942, pg. 42
“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
- Anne Frank, ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’
"We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same."
- Anne Frank, ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’
"I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, 'Crime and Punishment', Chapter 24
"I will work harder!"
- George Orwell, 'Animal Farm', Ch. 3
"The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever."
- George Orwell, 'Animal Farm', Ch. 6
My dear, I don’t give a damn. (The 'frankly' was added in the film adaptation.)
- Margaret Mitchell, 'Gone with the Wind' (1936)
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell, '1984'.
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
- Harper Lee, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Chapter 2
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
- Harper Lee, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Chapter 3
“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
- Harper Lee, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Chapter 11
"There are evils worse than death."
- James Fenimore Cooper, ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, Chapter 8
“Above all, pity those who live without love.”
- J.K Rowling, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’
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