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1984

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell

The Great Gatsby

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Harper Lee

The Catcher in the Rye

Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

J. D. Salinger

The Road

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Cormac McCarthy

Beloved

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Toni Morrison

Invisible Man

Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

Ralph Ellison

The Little Prince

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

On the Road

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

Jack Kerouac

The Handmaid's Tale

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Margaret Atwood

The Bell Jar

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery.

Sylvia Plath

Catch-22

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

Joseph Heller

Mrs. Dalloway

She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

Virginia Woolf

The Stranger

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

The Plague

The only way to fight the plague is with decency.

Albert Camus

The Sun Also Rises

Isn't it pretty to think so?

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

Frankenstein

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.

Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte

Brave New World

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything.

Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451

It was a pleasure to burn.

Ray Bradbury

The Grapes of Wrath

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own stomach but in his children's?

John Steinbeck

East of Eden

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck

Lolita

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.

Vladimir Nabokov

The Sound and the Fury

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels.

William Faulkner

Heart of Darkness

The horror! The horror!

Joseph Conrad

The Trial

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.

Franz Kafka

One Hundred Years of Solitude

It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love in the Time of Cholera

The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Kite Runner

For you, a thousand times over.

Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs.

Khaled Hosseini

The Book Thief

I have hated the words and I have loved them.

Markus Zusak

Never Let Me Go

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Remains of the Day

Perhaps, then, one should not be too hasty in building up one's expectations.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Norwegian Wood

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

Memories warm you up from the inside, but they also tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami

1Q84

If you don't like your fate, don't accept it.

Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

We are all in a kind of dream, but we forget it when we wake.

Haruki Murakami

The Road Less Traveled

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.

M. Scott Peck

Siddhartha

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth.

Milan Kundera

The Name of the Rose

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Umberto Eco

The Shadow of the Wind

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Master and Margarita

Manuscripts don't burn.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Doctor Zhivago

The great, majority, the people, are able to live without faith.

Boris Pasternak

Slaughterhouse-Five

So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut

The Color Purple

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.

Alice Walker

1984

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell

The Great Gatsby

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Harper Lee

The Catcher in the Rye

Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

J. D. Salinger

The Road

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Cormac McCarthy

Beloved

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Toni Morrison

Invisible Man

Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

Ralph Ellison

The Little Prince

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

On the Road

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

Jack Kerouac

The Handmaid's Tale

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Margaret Atwood

The Bell Jar

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery.

Sylvia Plath

Catch-22

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

Joseph Heller

Mrs. Dalloway

She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

Virginia Woolf

The Stranger

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

The Plague

The only way to fight the plague is with decency.

Albert Camus

The Sun Also Rises

Isn't it pretty to think so?

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

Frankenstein

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.

Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte

Brave New World

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything.

Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451

It was a pleasure to burn.

Ray Bradbury

The Grapes of Wrath

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own stomach but in his children's?

John Steinbeck

East of Eden

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck

Lolita

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.

Vladimir Nabokov

The Sound and the Fury

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels.

William Faulkner

Heart of Darkness

The horror! The horror!

Joseph Conrad

The Trial

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.

Franz Kafka

One Hundred Years of Solitude

It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love in the Time of Cholera

The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Kite Runner

For you, a thousand times over.

Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs.

Khaled Hosseini

The Book Thief

I have hated the words and I have loved them.

Markus Zusak

Never Let Me Go

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Remains of the Day

Perhaps, then, one should not be too hasty in building up one's expectations.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Norwegian Wood

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

Memories warm you up from the inside, but they also tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami

1Q84

If you don't like your fate, don't accept it.

Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

We are all in a kind of dream, but we forget it when we wake.

Haruki Murakami

The Road Less Traveled

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.

M. Scott Peck

Siddhartha

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth.

Milan Kundera

The Name of the Rose

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Umberto Eco

The Shadow of the Wind

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Master and Margarita

Manuscripts don't burn.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Doctor Zhivago

The great, majority, the people, are able to live without faith.

Boris Pasternak

Slaughterhouse-Five

So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut

The Color Purple

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.

Alice Walker

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