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“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…”
― Hermes Trismegistus

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like.
Leap clear of all that is corporeal, and make yourself grown to a like expanse with that greatness which is beyond all measure; rise above all time and become eternal; then you will apprehend God. Think that for you too nothing is impossible; deem that you too are immortal, and that you are able to grasp all things in your thought, to know every craft and science; find your home in the haunts of every living creature; make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths; bring together in yourself all opposites of quality, heat and cold, dryness and fluidity; think that you are everywhere at once, on land, at sea, in heaven; think that you are not yet begotten, that you are in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you have died, that you are in the world beyond the grave; grasp in your thought all of this at once, all times and places, all substances and qualities and magnitudes together; then you can apprehend God.

But if you shut up your soul in your body, and abase yourself, and say “I know nothing, I can do nothing; I am afraid of earth and sea, I cannot mount to heaven; I know not what I was, nor what I shall be,” then what have you to do with God?”
― Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius

“Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides;
all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests
in everything; the measure of the swing to the right,
is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm
compensates”
― Three Initiates, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Vivemos, pensamos e operamos — eis o que é positivo. E que morremos, não é menos certo. Mas, deixando a Terra, para onde vamos? Que seremos após a morte? Estaremos melhores ou pior? Existiremos ou não? Ser ou não ser, tal a alternativa.”
― Allan Kardec, O Céu e o Inferno

“Para sempre ou para nunca mais; ou tudo ou nada: Viveremos eternamente, ou tudo se aniquilará de vez? É uma tese, essa, que se impõe. Todo homem experimenta a necessidade de viver, de gozar, de amar e ser feliz.”
― Allan Kardec, O Céu e o Inferno

“Serei na vida futura aquilo que eu próprio houver feito de mim nesta vida;”
― Allan Kardec, O Céu e o Inferno

“A minha felicidade ou infelicidade depende da utilidade ou inutilidade da presente existência.”
― Allan Kardec, O Céu e o Inferno

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A saudade é uma tatuagem na alma: só nos livramos dela perdendo um pedaço de nós.”
― Mia Couto, O Outro Pé da Sereia

“Don’t ever worry about losing those you love. Just remember that we are all on the same Tree of Life.”
― Iva Kenaz, The Merkaba Mystery

“Witchcraft is the magick of the Earth itself. It is the essence that can bind life together.”
― Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

“Je est un autre.”
― Rimbaud

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?”
― George Gordon Byron

“Where there is power, there is resistance.”
― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

“And real talk, like, seeing these ants and studying them and respecting them, it’s like, man, they’re in their own community too. They’re trying to survive. They love. They fight. They telling themselves something. We can’t understand, but one day we will.”
― Brandon McCartney

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.”
― Aristotle Onassis

“The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.”
― Aristotle Onassis