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    Diogenes Laertius
    “We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.”
    ― Diogenes Laertius
    tags: awake, dreams
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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”
    ― Diogenes of Sinope
    tags: good, philosophers, philosophy, philsopher
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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “I am a citizen of the world.”
    ― Diogenes of Sinope, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
    tags: cynicism, philosophy
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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”
    ― Diogenes of Sinope
    tags: cynicism, philosophy
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    A.J. Reid
    “Did you enjoy killing me, your honour?”
    ― A.J. Reid, The Horseman's Dream
    tags: broadcasting, death, dreams, existential, media, mind-control, propaganda, psychological, spiritual-warfare, virtual-reality
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    A.J. Reid
    “Patrick had never thought about killing a person. Not until Nick Richards knocked out one of his teeth.”
    ― A.J. Reid, Grey Noise: Rock and Roll can be Murder
    tags: crime, murder, music-business, psychological, sound-engineer
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    tags: fear-of-unknown
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Rick Remender
    “Titles are just constructs to help us label one another to quickly assess what someone is worth without thinking too much.”
    ― Rick Remender, Black Science, Vol. 3: Vanishing Point
    tags: blackscience, class, imagecomics, names, titles, truth
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    Voltaire
    “Love truth, but pardon error.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: truth
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “That is not dead which can eternal lie,
    And with strange aeons even death may die.”
    ― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City
    tags: death
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Iain Reid
    “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.”
    ― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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    Bill Murray
    “I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.”
    ― Bill Murray
    tags: bill-murray, dislike, dogs, like, person, trust
    181 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    152085 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Clive Barker
    “No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.”
    ― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
    ― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: belief, delusions, faith, insanity
    1794 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
    2646 likes



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