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#1

“Who is John Galt?”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: first-lines, galt, objectivism, opening-lines, philosophy, taggart

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#2

“To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

tags: best-friends, heartbreak, love

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#3

“I know we're fucked up, alright? I'm impulsive, and hot tempered, and you get under my skin like no one else. You act like you hate me one minute, and then need me the next. I never get anything right, and I don't deserve you...but I fucking love you, Abby. I love you more than I loved anyone or anything ever. When you're around, I don't need booze, or money, or the fighting, or the one-night stands...”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

tags: love

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#4

“I would go through every single second of that again it it meant I still got to feel that kind of love – even for a moment.”
― Andrea Randall, In the Stillness

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#5

“Sometimes, the things people don't say speak louder than the things they do, though.”
― Andrea Randall, In the Stillness

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#6

“It only looks like such a mess because it’s not over yet.”
― Andrea Randall, In the Stillness

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#7

“Look, the Devil has asked me. We’re very old acquaintances, he and I, and I couldn’t turn him down. My estate is enormous, so he asked me for a little space, since hell has become totally overpopulated and there’s no room left whatsoever. He doesn’t have any choice in the matter Himself. Nowadays, everyone wants to go to hell, and the Devil, being as decent as he is, can’t turn anyone down. You understand, don’t you? There’s nobody left in Heaven. Heaven has gone bankrupt,”.”
― A. Tomov - junior, Beyond the Absurd

tags: 2013, new, quotes, short-stories

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#8

“Listen with an open heart”
― William O'Brien

tags: healing-insights, humanity, knowledge, magic, mystical, philosophy, spirituality, truth

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#9

“Many years ago, plunging was discovered when the moon was in two halves- it's all about dreams, you see”
― William O'Brien, Peter: A Darkened Fairytale

tags: dreams, fairytale, fantasy, magic, moon, mystical, witch, wizard

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#10

“I am here because I have to be here, as here I am supposed to be! All things should be, and usually are, found in their rightful places. Can you imagine how chaotic the world would be if nothing was in its correct place?”
― William O'Brien, Peter: A Darkened Fairytale

tags: alice-in-wonderland, bizarre, creatures, environmentalism, fairytale, magic, surreal

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#11

“Doubt is unacceptable and should not enter you; it is merely evil trying to divert you and increase the difficulty of your task”
― William O'Brien, Peter: A Darkened Fairytale

tags: crystals, dark, fairytale, inspirational, magic, mystical, poem, witch, wizard

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#12

“My path will weave
The way you say
There is no doubt
You'll create the way”
― William O'Brien, Peter: A Darkened Fairytale

tags: crystals, dark, fairytale, inspirational, magic, mystical, poem, witch, wizard

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#13

“Devil’s Wish

A bowl of spells
Swirls a mix
Smoke and bubbles
Seek the fix

Young boy's eye
And fever few
Witches grass
Some mandrake root”
― William O'Brien, Peter, Enchantment and Stardust: The Poems

tags: devil, enchanted, magic, poems, spells, witch

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#14

“Devic Magic

Woodland sprites, elves and nymphs
Waltz in time take a glimpse
Fairies hide the forest wit
Mushrooms fly, agarics hit”
― William O'Brien, Peter, Enchantment and Stardust: The Poems

tags: devic, fairy, magic, mushroom, spell, sprites

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#15

“The control of your mind is most important, and it will be worth your while. You must think deeply. Clear your mind of all bad, unwanted thoughts”
― William O'Brien, Peter: A Darkened Fairytale

tags: children-s-book-quotes, control, inspirational, magical, spiritual

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#16

“Peter

Swirling dreams
Dragons knew
Touching life to win
Deep inside many other worlds
Where should we begin?”
― William O'Brien

tags: dragon, enchanted, inspirational, magic, poems

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#17

“Music is love in search of a word.”
― Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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#18

“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. Let us reflect that it is inhabited by a thousand millions of people. That these profess probably a thousand different systems of religion. That ours is but one of that thousand. That if there be but one right, and ours that one, we should wish to see the 999 wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth. But against such a majority we cannot effect this by force. Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

tags: error, fools, free-inquiry, hypocrites, reason, religious-violence, uniformity

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#19

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

tags: books-reading

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#20

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

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#21

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

6988 likes

#22

“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
― Tom Wolfe

tags: atheism, philosophy

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#23

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

tags: art, love

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#24

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational

5056 likes

#25

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

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#26

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#27

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science

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#28

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

tags: art, love, profound

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#29

“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

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