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“Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life.”
― Bruce Lee

“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“When man begins to think that he is responsible for writing the script of the world, he forgets the forces that dream up our reality.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Everyone, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place on the social ladder, and is beset by stormy passions and conflicting interests, as in Descartes’ theory of pressure and impulsion. But these forces increase as we go higher, so that we have a spiral which in defiance of reason rests upon the apex and not on the base.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“celerity”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Like everything else, we must habituate the senses to a fresh impression, gentle or violent, sad or joyous. There is a struggle in nature against this divine substance,—in nature which is not made for joy and clings to pain. Nature subdued must yield in the combat, the dream must succeed to reality, and then the dream reigns supreme, then the dream becomes life, and life becomes the dream.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during six thousand years as is wrought by the living in a single day.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I will soothe your ears with words that shall effectually calm and soothe your parting soul ere it goes forth to traverse the ocean called eternity.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“One must take the world as one finds it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Now, to follow out this reasoning, what is the marvellous?—that which we do not understand. What is it that we really desire?—that which we cannot obtain.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“No mercy, sir! The physician has a sacred mission on earth; and to fulfil it he begins at the source of life, and goes down to the mysterious darkness of the tomb. When crime has been committed, and God, doubtless in anger, turns away his face, it is for the physician to bring the culprit to justice.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“it appeared to him as if a slight gloomy smile had passed over her thin lips, like a meteor seen passing inauspiciously between two clouds in a stormy sky.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Monte Cristo pressed his hands to his forehead. What was passing in that brain, so loaded with dreadful secrets? What does the angel of light or the angel of darkness say to that mind, at once implacable and generous? God only knows.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I kept the inside thoughts inside,”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“I resent the implication that I am given to melodramatics,”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“the friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts, and it has been thus ordained that we may always be accompanied by them.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count Of Monte Cristo

“Thou shalt tear out the dragons’ teeth, and shall trample the lions under foot, saith the Lord.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“according to the care we bestow upon it, death is either a friend who rocks us gently as a nurse, or an enemy who violently drags the soul from the body.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Tell the angel who will watch over your future destiny, Morrel, to pray sometimes for a man, who, like Satan, thought himself for an instant equal to God, but who now acknowledges with Christian humility that God alone possesses supreme power and infinite wisdom.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“two words,—‘Wait and hope.’—”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell

“Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell

“Space was still there; but it had lost its predominance. The mind was primarily concerned, not with measures and locations, but with being and meaning.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

“The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell

“ersatz”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell

“Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell

“Against the monster, I’ve always wanted meaning. Not for its own sake, because in the usual course of things, who needs the self-consciousness of it? Let meaning be immanent, noted in passing, if at all. But that won’t do when the monster has its funnel driven into the back of your head and is sucking the light coming through your eyes straight out of you into the mouth of oblivion. So like a cripple I long for what others don’t notice they have: ordinary meaning.”
― Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

“The monster doesn’t take words. It may take speech, but not words in the head, which are its minions. The army of the tiny, invisible dead wielding their tiny, spinning scythes, cutting at the flesh of the mind. Unlike ordinary blades, they sharpen with use. They’re keenest in repetition. Self-accusation being nothing if not repetitive. There is nothing deep about this. It is merely endless.”
― Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone