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#1

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

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#2

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

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#3

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

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#4

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

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#5

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

tags: anti-christian, atheism, bible, religion

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#6

“Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

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#7

“Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

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#8

“I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

tags: humor, humour

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#9

“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth

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#10

“Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.”
― John Dee, The Hieroglyphic Monad

tags: alchemy, philosophy

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#11

“In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.”
― Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual

tags: 1855, alchemy, doctrine, the-magic-chain

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#12

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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#13

“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
― Karl R. Popper

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#14

“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: dreams, life

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#15

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance

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#16

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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#17

“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
― Robert Graves

tags: robert-graves

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#18

“Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”
― J.M. Barrie

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#19

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

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#20

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

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#21

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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#22

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

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#23

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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#24

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#25

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

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#26

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: cats, gifts, love

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#27

“We're all in this game together.”
― William Styron

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#28

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

tags: jungism, personhood, shadow-self

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#29

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

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#30

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

tags: civil-rights

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