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#1

“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

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#2

“Le linee oscure stanno salendo e sono in poprocinto di far crollare,corrodendola con la loro azione,l'ultima linea forte e chiara. È lo sgretolamento.Nessun luogo è propizio”
― Giovanni Lindo Ferretti

tags: cccp, fedeli, italia, linea, rock

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#3

“The brain runs its show incognito.”
― David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

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#4

“Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.”
― David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

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#5

“I said that my mother is mad. I said that. But you might not see it. I mean, you might not think that anything I've told you proves she is mad. But there are different kinds of madness. Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow. Then one day, maybe many months after your decision to take your son out of school and isolate him in a house for reasons that got lost in your grief, one day that madness will stir in the chair, and it will say to him, 'You look pale.”
― Nathan Filer

tags: grief, madness, mother, schizophrenia, son

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#6

“The only way to find out where I was was to get out of the way and let myself happen.”
― Mark Epstein, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness

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#7

“We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?”
― David Foster Wallace

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#8

“But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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#9

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#10

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational

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#11

“Sometimes a person will do just about anything for a wish to come true.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish In A Tree

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#12

“ I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us. ”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

tags: 20th-century, adventure, angel-s-game, art, barcelona, books-about-books, carlos-ruiz-zafón, dark-fantasy, death, devotion, el-juego-del-angel, epic-fantasy, evermore, faith, fantasy, freedom, goth, gothic, gothic-romance, happyness, heaven, hell, hnowledge, humor, inspirational, jocul-ingerului, life, love, memories, pain, philosophy, romance, supernatural, thriller, tibidabo, truth, wisdom, world-war, writing, zafon

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#13

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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#14

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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#15

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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#16

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

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#17

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

tags: salinger, stories

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#18

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: confidence, honesty

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#19

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#20

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

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#21

“Do not fall in love with people like me.
I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

tags: beautiful, blood, kiss, life, love, mouth, museums, parks

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#22

“I mean, I hope you're happy,
But the sky is still the sky without you,
And I'm not surprised by that anymore.”
― Caitlyn Siehl

tags: love

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#23

“However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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#24

“We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.”
― Nikolai Gogol

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#25

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

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#26

“Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: character, experience, future, mistakes, past, sin

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