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# Favorite Quotes From Books

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1. 12 [Paradise Lost, by John Milton [![fa7f75fa](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=fa7f75fa-1c42-5e88-9746-c5b38ad597c3&size=16)fa7f75fa](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/fa7f75fa)16y Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/paradise-lost-by-john-milton)Post comment
2. 22 [Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes [![ce442e79](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=ce442e79-047f-4be0-8492-8bf9ee20cd9b&size=16)ce442e79](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/ce442e79)16y "I passed your floor on the way up, and now I'm passing it on the way down, and I don't think I'll be taking this elevator again."](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/flowers-for-algernon-daniel-keyes)Post comment
3. 32 [Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=0e335665-8c1e-5015-9890-b610f829a31e&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)16y What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/catcher-in-the-rye-by-j-d-salinger)Post comment
4. 41 [War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=0e335665-8c1e-5015-9890-b610f829a31e&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)16y If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars.](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/war-and-peace-by-leo-tolstoy)Post comment
5. 51 [War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=0e335665-8c1e-5015-9890-b610f829a31e&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)16y "What's this? Am I falling? My legs are giving way under me," he thought, and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle of the French soldiers with the artilleryman was ending, and eager to know whether the red-haired gunner artilleryman was killed or not, whether the cannons had been taken or saved. But he saw nothing of all that. Above him there was nothing but the sky \— the lofty sky, not clear, but still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds creeping quietly over it.… More](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/war-and-peace-by-leo-tolstoy-2)Post comment
6. 61 [Catch-22, by Joseph Heller [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=0e335665-8c1e-5015-9890-b610f829a31e&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)16y There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.… More](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/catch-22-by-joseph-heller)Post comment
7. 71 [The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho [![ce442e79](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=ce442e79-047f-4be0-8492-8bf9ee20cd9b&size=16)ce442e79](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/ce442e79)16y \“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.\”](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/the-alchemist-by-paulo-coelho)Post comment
8. 81 [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [![ce442e79](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=ce442e79-047f-4be0-8492-8bf9ee20cd9b&size=16)ce442e79](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/ce442e79)16y Don't panic.](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-douglas-adams)Post comment
9. 91 [Frankenstein [![82aa6557](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=82aa6557-0ffa-4fb7-87b4-3f6af27acdf5&size=16)82aa6557](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/82aa6557)15y "All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends."… More](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/frankenstein)Post comment
10. 101 [War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=e18d6736-bce3-5c03-8497-a7af43543f24&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)12y While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity. And now during these last three weeks of the march he had learned still another new, consolatory truth- that nothing in this world is terrible. He had learned that as there is no condition in which man can be happy and entirely free, so there is no condition in which he need be unhappy and lack freedom. He learned that suffering and freedom have their limits and that those limits are very near together....… More](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/war-and-peace-by-leo-tolstoy-3)Post comment
11. 110 [Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman [![6c2d0046](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=6c2d0046-44a7-4d27-9d37-62576200cdcb&size=16)6c2d0046](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/6c2d0046)16y I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/leaves-of-grass-by-walt-whitman)Post comment
12. 120 [Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman [![6c2d0046](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=6c2d0046-44a7-4d27-9d37-62576200cdcb&size=16)6c2d0046](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/6c2d0046)16y I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder along completes all.](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/leaves-of-grass-by-walt-whitman-2)Post comment
13. 130 [East of Eden, by John Steinbeck [![6c2d0046](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=6c2d0046-44a7-4d27-9d37-62576200cdcb&size=16)6c2d0046](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/6c2d0046)16y And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.… More](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/east-of-eden-by-john-steinbeck)Post comment
14. 140 [Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand [![6c2d0046](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=6c2d0046-44a7-4d27-9d37-62576200cdcb&size=16)6c2d0046](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/6c2d0046)16y So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?… More](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/atlas-shrugged-by-ayn-rand)Post comment
15. 150 [Family Happiness, by Leo Tolstoy [![6c2d0046](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=6c2d0046-44a7-4d27-9d37-62576200cdcb&size=16)6c2d0046](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/6c2d0046)16y I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/family-happiness-by-leo-tolstoy)Post comment
16. 160 [Life of Pi - Yann Martel [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=a71a37bf-2f7d-55e9-8826-090f61308392&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)16y That was my last entry. I went on from there, ... endured, but without noting it. Do you see these invisible spirals on the margins of the page? I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out.](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/life-of-pi-yann-martel)Post comment
17. 170 [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=0e335665-8c1e-5015-9890-b610f829a31e&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)16y "Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:\`I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, \`for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'\`But,' says Man, \`The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'\`Oh dear,' says God, \`I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic."… More](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-by-douglas-adams)Post comment
18. 180 [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams [![6c2d0046](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=6c2d0046-44a7-4d27-9d37-62576200cdcb&size=16)6c2d0046](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/6c2d0046)16y This planet has \— or rather had \— a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.… More](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-by-douglas-adams-2)Post comment
19. 190 [Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [![ce442e79](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=ce442e79-047f-4be0-8492-8bf9ee20cd9b&size=16)ce442e79](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/ce442e79)16y "Time is priceless, but it\’s Free. You can't own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can't keep it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back."](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/time-traveler-s-wife-audrey-niffenegger)Post comment
20. 200 [Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=0e335665-8c1e-5015-9890-b610f829a31e&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)16y The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.' Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.… More](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/fahrenheit-451-by-ray-bradbury)Post comment
21. 210 [East of Eden, by John Steinbeck [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=0e335665-8c1e-5015-9890-b610f829a31e&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)16y He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/east-of-eden-by-john-steinbeck-2)Post comment
22. 220 [East of Eden, by John Steinbeck [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=0e335665-8c1e-5015-9890-b610f829a31e&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)16y The Hebrew word timshel \— Thou mayest \— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if Thou mayest \— it is also true that Thou mayest not... Thou mayest makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth ... he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.… More](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/east-of-eden-by-john-steinbeck-3)Post comment
23. 230 [The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=7ff5a6c6-268f-5c98-a604-2e89d2eba6c9&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)14y "She worked diligently to develop her understanding of breath; for she knew that with breath she could create a world. She imagined herself breathing life into the glass and, with every week that passed, Sei came closer to realizing the loveliness of the objects that she could picture in her imagination."… More](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/the-gargoyle-andrew-davidson)Post comment
24. 240 [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=7ff5a6c6-268f-5c98-a604-2e89d2eba6c9&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)14y The Answer to the Great Question\…Of Life, the Universe and Everything\…Is\…Forty-two.](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy)Post comment
25. 250 [Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=e18d6736-bce3-5c03-8497-a7af43543f24&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)14y And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/leaves-of-grass-by-walt-whitman-3)Post comment
26. 260 [A Dream Within A Dream, by Edgar Allan Poe [![Anonymous](https://api.dicebear.com/9.x/identicon/svg?seed=e18d6736-bce3-5c03-8497-a7af43543f24&size=16)Anonymous](https://toptenfast.lovable.app/Anonymous)14y I stand amid the roar Of a surf-torment shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! I can not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?… More](/list/favorite-quotes-from-books/a-dream-within-a-dream-by-edgar-allan-poe)Post comment

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