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Best Book Quotes
Here is a list of the best quotes you will find between the pages of a book. Some will be familiar, some less so. Be inspired. Marvel. Sigh.

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
―Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”

“The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”

“As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

“I desire therefore I exist.”

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

“Everything in life is just for a while.”

“What you risk reveals what you value.”

"Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot."
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffanys

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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