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Quote of the day 08/28/25

From Haruki Murakami: “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”

From Haruki Murakami: “It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

From Haruki Murakami: “Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”

From Haruki Murakami: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

From Haruki Murakami: “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

From John Donne: “He that desires to print a book should much more desire to be a book.”

From Francis Bacon: “Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”

From Marcus Tullius Cicero: “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

From Marcus Tullius Cicero: “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

From Jack London: “Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.”