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“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
― Ernst Fischer

“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”
― Charles Baudelaire

“We who hold the pen...
and like bricks we use our words...
how stupid of us...
how naive...
to even think for a second...
that the pen was ever mightier than the sword.”
― unauthor, The Unwords

“The will of life and death,
never share the same motivation...
we all know that love is the ultimate motive to die for...
but let’s not kid ourselves...

...we all know the ultimate motive to rise back from the dead is vengeance.”
― unauthor, The Unwords

“In a society...
so madly in love with oxymoron's...
ask yourself this...

...when was the last time you ever bought anything for free?”
― unauthor, The Unwords

“In my world...
When you can't live without someone...
that is not love...
that is called an addiction.”
― unauthor, The Unwords

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat