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    Alan W. Watts
    “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Alan W. Watts
    “But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: reality-philosophy-buddhism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: devil, hell, world
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Michael Marshall Smith
    “The realest and scariest monsters are internal demons, the specters of regret and guilt and lack of fulfillment, awareness of the entropic end of love, or the first shivers occasioned by the realization of our own ageing, and the eventual inevitability of death.”
    ― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need
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    Michael Marshall Smith
    “and only when that happens do you realise just how much silence there really is. Silence between lovers, when something really needs to be said; silence from a parent when a child needs some word more than anything else in the world; silences and in betweens and everything which isn’t an answer.”
    ― Michael Marshall Smith, Spares
    tags: silence, unspoken-words
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
    tags: anxiety, humor, simile
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
    tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life
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    Carl Sagan
    “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: perspective
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “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.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: anger, books, friends, greedy, life, loneliness, man, myself, selfish, travel, woman, work, write
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    Italo Calvino
    “You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.”
    ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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    Italo Calvino
    “To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.”
    ― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, calling, life
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    Douglas Adams
    “And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: crucifixion, fenchurch, nailed, tree
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  • #19
    “I believe in staying open to possibility. What is the point of not believing, closing the door? Just leave it open, see what comes in.”
    ― A.M. Homes, This Book Will Save Your Life
    tags: believing
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  • #20
    “You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are—start there.”
    ― A.M. Homes, Music for Torching: A Darkly Comic Literary Satire of Suburban Family Dysfunction in America
    tags: beginning, change, life
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    China Miéville
    “I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.”
    ― China Miéville, Embassytown
    tags: alone, avice-benner-cho, last-chapter
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    Michael Marshall Smith
    “Your story can change. Overnight.”
    ― Michael Marshall Smith, Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    tags: interaction, loneliness, love
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Nathan Ballingrud
    “A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost ends and real life begins.”
    ― Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
    tags: ghosts, loss
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