“Destiny is usually around the corner. Like a thief, like a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.”
Carlos Ruis Zafon

"Truth is beautiful, without a doubt. But so are lies."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."
Edward Albee

"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well."
Samuel Butler

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
Saint Augustine


"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead

"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
Conte Vittorio Alfieri

"Good nonsense is good sense in disguise."
Josh Billings

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
Herm Albright

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
Herman Hesse


"We must become the change we want to see."
Mahatma Gandhi

"If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be."
Marquis de Sade

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