She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on. Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story. Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’. Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own. Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>