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“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“L'esprit est toujours la dupe du coeur.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
That would not let me sleep.”
― Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”
― Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare

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

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

“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

“You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors...
Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...
What then was music created for?
Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?
I think I know.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work. ”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”
― W. C. Fields

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Les défauts de l'âme sont comme les blessures du corps: quelque soin qu'on prenne de les guérir, la cicatrice paraît toujours, et elles sont à tout moment en danger de se rouvrir.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”
― Albert Einstein

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
― C. S. Lewis

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters