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“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

“Multiple personalities. Don't freak out but I'm pretty sure I have them. Not a clinical thing, not a disease. But a distraction to be sure. There are maybe six or seven pretty concrete versions of myself knocking around in here and I mean it gets fucking crowded when everybody is drunk or talking at once.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Phineas Poe: Kiss Me, Judas / Penny Dreadful / Hell's Half Acre

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
― John F. Kennedy

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Phineas Poe: Kiss Me, Judas / Penny Dreadful / Hell's Half Acre

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

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

“[...]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

“My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Socrates

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
― Simone Weil

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery