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“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

“She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
― Frank Miller

“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.”
― Dan Gutman, From Texas with Love

“The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.”
― Toni Collette

“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.”
― Ossie Davis

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“As for me, I see both beauty and the dark side of the things; the loveliness of cornfields and full sails, but the ruin as the well. And I see them at the same time, and chary of that ecstasy. The Japanese have a phrase for this dual perception: mono no aware. It means "beauty tinged with sadness," for there cannot be any real beauty without the indolic whiff of decay. For me, living is the same thing as dying, and loving is the same thing as losing, and this does not make me a madwoman; I believe it can make me better at living, and better at loving, and, just possibly, better at seeing.”
― Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
― Oscar Wilde, Salomé

“The beauty of a landscape resides in its melancholy.”
― Ahmet Rasim

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
― Victor Hugo

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe