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    Bram Stoker
    “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
    ― Bram Stoker
    tags: dracula
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    William Golding
    “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    Joseph Conrad
    “And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: civilization, darkness
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Angela Carter
    “And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.”
    ― Angela Carter
    tags: metamorphosis, the-bloody-chamber, the-tigers-bride, transformation
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
    tags: dragons
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    M.R. James
    “The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw
    entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its head. It was busy about the truckle-beds, but not for long. The sound of cries - faint, as if coming out of a vast distance - but, even so, infinitely appalling, reached the ear. ("The Haunted Doll's House")”
    ― M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
    tags: ghost, monster
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    Thomas Brown
    “When I see individuals so passionate for their chosen field, I feel a very strong sense of belonging. Passion unites us – not just every writer and every chef but every musician, every artist, every man, woman and child who throws themselves into an activity not for money or fame or because it makes any sense at all but because they love it and they must.”
    ― Thomas Brown
    tags: art, belonging, love, passion, passionate
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    Thomas Babington Macaulay
    “What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
    ― Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
    ― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
    tags: dreams, music
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    Graham Swift
    “That's the way it is: life includes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.”
    ― Graham Swift, Waterland
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    Thomas Ligotti
    “The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”)”
    ― Thomas Ligotti
    tags: enlightenment, horror, insight, sinister, terror
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    Thomas Ligotti
    “The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.”
    ― Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer
    tags: dreams, pessimism, vastarien
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: be-yourself, self-expression
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
    43904 likes



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