“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

You can put truth in a different book, but it’s still real. It’s still the truth.

Even when your tears have soaked through the last pages of your book, the sun will dry them and illuminate every word of your story.

Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age.

Every book that you read has taught you a lesson, a lesson you will cherish forever.

Every day is a routine: you wake up, go to work or school, get tired, watch TV shows or read books, and then go to bed – and so on in a circle. Did you recognize yourself? It’s a shame because this is the wrong approach.

Books are best to improve focus on life.

I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.