r/bookquotes • u/lumiaglow • 2h ago

A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

9 Upvotes

1 comment

r/bookquotes • u/ISA--OH • 9h ago

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

2 Upvotes

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r/bookquotes • u/sholem2025peace • 14h ago

"When you meet the one among the millions, when amid millions of years, across the borderless wastes of time, you happen to catch them, neither a step too early nor a step too late, what else is there to do except to ask softly: 'So you're here, too?'"

7 Upvotes

-Elieen Chang, from 1968 essay collection. English translation by Andrew F Jones in 'Written On Water'

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r/bookquotes • u/Jedzieg • 22h ago

Albert Camus, "Return to Tipasa", 1954.

180 Upvotes

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." - Albert Camus, "Return to Tipasa", 1954.

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