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“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

“Kindly consider the question: what would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the
earth look like if shadows disappeared from it? Shadows are cast by objects and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. Trees and living beings also have shadows. Do you want to skin the whole
earth, tearing all the trees and living things off it, because of your fantasy of enjoying bare light?
You're a fool.”
― Bulgakov Master and Margarita

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“For fourteen days, I was unspeakably happy. Unspeakably but not absolutely because, for me, joy never comes without the grief of knowing it is only ephemeral. All happiness carries with it the seed of its own end.”
― Gabrielle Wittkop, The Necrophiliac

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“There is no heaven or hell.
No matter what you do while you're alive, everybody goes to the same place once you die.

Death is Equal.”
― Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note, Vol. 12: Finis

“Perhaps one reason Navidson became so enamoured with photography was the way it gave permanence to moments that were often so fleeting.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind
People think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time
All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy
Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify
Can you help me, occupy my brain?”
― Black Sabbath

“...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along. ”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves