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#1

“A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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#2

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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#3

“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”
― Ayn Rand, Anthem

tags: happiness, inspirational, salvation

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#4

“the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

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#5

“the machine masturbated and we had to take it or die.”
― Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

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#6

“I don't know everything, I just know what I know.”
― NisiOisiN, 化物語 (上) [Bakemonogatari]

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#7

“He won’t be diving straight for the human flesh. But a cat has got to eat, and you are the person who feeds him. This is the cat-human compact. Death doesn’t free you from performing your contractual obligations.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

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#8

“Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long ago, comes over me like a vapor. With growth into adulthood, responsibilities claimed me, so many heavy coats. I didn’t choose them, I don’t fault them, but it took time to reject them. Now in the spring I kneel, I put my face into the packets of violets, the dampness, the freshness, the sense of ever-ness. Something is wrong, I know it, if I don’t keep my attention on eternity. May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stay forever in the stream. May I look down upon the windflower and the bull thistle and the coreopsis with the greatest respect.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

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#9

“Drinking alcohol decreases the distance between us and gods. It'll help you relax a little, anyway."

"...I'm underage.”
― NisiOisiN, 化物語 (上) [Bakemonogatari]

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#11

“That night, alone in bed, I started seeing time differently. History.

Followed by a full stop. Try to imagine what it’s like for a fourth-grader

to be terrified of death. I had to find a way out. Sleep was definitely scary

--a whole lot like death. But that didn’t keep me from getting sucked in.

Into the world of dreams.

The boy who is afraid of death lives for dreams.”
― Hideo Furukawa

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#11

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: love

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#12

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#13

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#14

“Ah, why should all mankind
For one man's fault, be condemned,
If guiltless?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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#15

“This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

tags: war

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#16

“Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there”
― Radiohead

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#17

“Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.”
― Radiohead

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#18

“I've heard of a crustacean that eats just the corneas of sharks until the sharks are blinded, and butterflies in the Amazon that drink the tears of turtles---yet these animals aren't demons, they're just animals, and many people believe them to have been made the way they are by God. Of course, there are also animals that survive on blood; and others that crack open eggs and eat the young, or the runny yolk inside; and others that eat their own young; and, then, humans too eat meat and eggs and blood, only in specific ways, in specific shapes, with specific herbs, and these animals and humans are not demons.”
― Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

tags: animal-world, cannibalism, diets, dog-eat-dog, survival-of-species

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#19

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: violence

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#20

“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: improvisation, planning, success

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#21

“If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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#22

“It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: human-condition

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#23

“Your mind can be your best friend; it can keep you amused even when there's nothing to read, nothing to do. But it can turn on you when it's left with no input for too long.”
― Stephen King, The Jaunt

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#24

“No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

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#25

“There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

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#26

“...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

tags: boredom, mind

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#27

“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: alone, anger, appreciation, assumptions, celebrity, communication, conscience, delusion, enemy, excommunication, extrovert, fame, famous, fancy, fantasy, fear, fights, friends, friendship, hate, haters, illusion, infamous, insanity, insecurity, introvert, irrational, loneliness, loner, misunderstood, misunderstood-fights, opinions, opinions-of-others, paranoia, perception, popularity, psychology, psychopath, relationship, revenge, seclusion, sociopath, solitude, vengeance, victim, villain

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#28

“A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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#29

“Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

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#30

“Good night. I'm Cinderella without her prince. Do you know where to find me in Tokyo? You won't see me again.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

tags: cinderella, cryptic, mysterious

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