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    Franz Kafka
    “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Pete Wentz
    “We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.”
    ― Pete Wentz
    tags: homophobia, lgbt, vocabulary
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    Emily Dickinson
    “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Jess C. Scott
    “I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
    tags: dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, desire, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague, emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, love, lust, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural, supernaturalism, truth, urban-fantasy
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley
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    J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    “But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
    ― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
    tags: carmilla, classic, gothic, horror, joseph-sheridan-le-fanu
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    Jess C. Scott
    “One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.

    “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
    tags: dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, death, desire, dying, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague, emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, flowers, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, lilies, love, lust, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural, supernaturalism, truth-beauty, truth-love-hope, urban-fantasy
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    Grant Morrison
    “I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.”
    ― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
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    “Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –”
    ― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
    tags: abandon, cardew, castle, destroy, destroyed, devastated, everybody, everyone, fear, fiction, force, fort, fortress, freya, general, ghost, gothic, gothic-romance, image, inside, king, mask, mysterious, mystery, no-one, nobody, outside, play, power, powerful, present, pretend, queen, romance, ruin, ruins, self-image, strength, strong, stronghold, suspense, weak, weakness, young-adult
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    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio
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    S.E. Hinton
    “You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you...”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
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    Hajime Isayama
    “The only thing we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made.”
    ― Hajime Isayama
    tags: attack-on-titan, hajime-isayama, levi, shingeki-no-kyojin
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    Hajime Isayama
    “If I can't do it. . . I'll just die.
    But if I win, I live.
    If I don't fight, I can't win.”
    ― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 2
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    Hajime Isayama
    “The world is merciless, and it's also very beautiful.”
    ― Hajime Isayama
    tags: attack-on-titan, beautiful, eremika, eren-jaeger, inspiration, life, mikasa, mikasa-ackerman, shingeki-no-kyojin, snk, world
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    Angie Thomas
    “What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: black-lives-matter, racism
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    Albert Einstein
    “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: crazy, question, thought-provoking
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    Franz Kafka
    “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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    Franz Kafka
    “Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
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    Virginia Woolf
    “All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
    tags: gender, misandry, misogyny, sexism
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    Franz Kafka
    “I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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    Franz Kafka
    “However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
    tags: confusion, self-expression, society, words
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923
    tags: misery
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    “I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. "Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with." Because once the context ends, so does the friendship”
    ― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
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