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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
    ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. ”
    ― Mary Shelley
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: life
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Charles Dickens
    “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
    ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
    tags: biography, opening-lines
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    James Crumley
    “Maybe I will go to Paris.
    Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never
    Go back to Texas again”
    ― James Crumley
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    “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
    ― John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-goethe
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Charles Dickens
    “There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
    ― Charles Dickens
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    Dean Koontz
    “Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it. ”
    ― Dean Koontz
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    Dean Koontz
    “Night has patterns that can be read
    less by the living than by the dead.
    ”
    ― Dean Koontz
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    Stephen King
    “I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.”
    ― Stephen King, Stephen King 3-Book Box Set: The Bachman Books / Thinner / The Tommyknockers
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    Stephen King
    “The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
    ― Stephen King
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen
    tags: hans-christian-andersen
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    Dean Koontz
    “One door away from heaven
    And the key is ours to lose.
    One door away from heaven
    But oh, the entry dues.”
    ― Dean Koontz
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    William Golding
    “Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

    I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: beliefs, breakfast, humor, impossible
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
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    “It’s an old dream that eats me slowly every night at this time it begins and there’s nothing anyone without love can do. ”
    ― Franz Douskey
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
    tags: future, life, past
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: chance, happiness, risk
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
    "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
    tags: death, living
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.”
    ― chuck palahniuk
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
    tags: love, romance
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    John Steinbeck
    “And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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