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Top Quotes from Top Books of All Time

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“And science is about facts, and morality is about values. They are not the same thing and they don't grow together. No one can find a value on the slide of a microscope.”

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Louis de Bernières

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”

milk and honey

Rupi Kaur

“Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.”

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”

Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier

“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”

Forbidden

Tabitha Suzuma

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”

Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts

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