Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it. ― Boris Pasternak

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Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" ) ― Erik Pevernagie

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On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead. ― Stephen Chbosky

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You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

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The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. ― Samuel Johnson

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It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing.

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Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

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Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. But you don't. Because we are the ants. ― Shaun David Hutchinson

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Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme. ― Morrissey

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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got! ― Yann Martel

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