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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Kurt Cobain

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Fear is the mind-killer.”
― Frank Herbert , Dune

“It was like being asleep when you were awake and awake when you were asleep. I'd pinch myself, figuratively speaking - I had to keep pinching myself. Then I'd wake up kind of in reverse; I'd go back to the nightmare I had to live in. And everything would be clear and reasonable.”
― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind faith. (Dawkins says) ‘Scientific belief is based on publicly checkable evidence, religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its joy, shouted from the rooftops.’ However, taking Dawkins own advice we ask: where is the evidence that religious faith is not based on evidence? Mainstream Christianity will insist that faith and evidence are inseparable. Indeed, faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence. The apostle Paul says what many pioneers of modern science believed, that nature itself is part of the evidence for the existence of God ,‘ Since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities- his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made. So that men are without an excuse.’ Dawkins’ definition of faith turns out to be the direct opposite of the biblical one. Curious that he does not seem to be aware of the discrepancy.”
― John Lennox

“Nonsense remains nonsense, even when talked by world-famous scientists.”
― John C. Lennox

“I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year...”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Poetry

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

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

“A rush of panic comforted him with its familiarity.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

“A doctor, Pam, is usually a shadow cast by the advancing undertaker.”
― Claude Houghton, Neighbours