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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: inspiration
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, imperfections
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin
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    Gabor Maté
    “Not the world, not what’s outside of us, but what we hold inside traps us. We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.”
    ― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
    tags: addiction-and-recovery
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    Fuminori Nakamura
    “Don't you think people make their own choices in life?'

    'They do, but in many cases their choices are limited--unless they break the rules.”
    ― Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
    tags: breaking-the-rules
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    Fuminori Nakamura
    “The ultimate end of sadism is ruin and murder. The one in control is always the masochist.”
    ― Fuminori Nakamura, The Kingdom
    tags: life, masochist, murder, ruin, sadism, ultimate-end
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    Fuminori Nakamura
    “When people believe they have a good cause, the violence within them bursts forth unrestrained, as if their good angel has given permission for it to escape.”
    ― Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
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    Fuminori Nakamura
    “When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope.”
    ― Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
    tags: consciousness, fooling-oneself, situation
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    Fuminori Nakamura
    “The seeds of evil, the mud that never dries, will squirm and grow at every corner of the globe, through humans’ unconscious mind and karmic echoes.”
    ― Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
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    Fuminori Nakamura
    “Aristotle, the scholar from ancient times, supposedly said "Even gods cannot change the past." In which case, the gods are useless.”
    ― Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation
    tags: uselessgods
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    “They say the sea is actually black and that it merely reflects the blue sky above. So it was with me. I allowed you to admire yourself in my eyes. I provided a service. I listened and listened and listened. You stored yourself in me.”
    ― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief
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    “You can’t hurt a man with a pinprick when he’s already got a spear in his chest.”
    ― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief
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    “My logic went as follows: If someone hurts you then you automatically want revenge. It doesn’t matter how long it takes, you want revenge. I thought, if I hurt her enough she would want revenge. Therefore, I wouldn’t have to worry about never seeing her again. Because that is what I feared most. The fact that I was losing her.”
    ― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief
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    “Never let her know how much you love her or she'll kill you with it.”
    ― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief
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    “I see now that I was in pain and wanted others to feel it, too. This was my way of communicating.”
    ― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief
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    “All I know is, I felt better when I saw someone else in pain.”
    ― ANONYMOUS, Diary of an Oxygen Thief
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  • #18
    “Love, hate, what’s the difference?”
    ― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief
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    “What's a romance without anger, tears, and woe?”
    ― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: nagasawa
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    Kate McNeil
    “Destroying someone's life could be remarkably cathartic.”
    ― Kate McNeil, Thistles
    tags: avenge, eye-for-an-eye, getting-even, reprisal, retribution, revenge, ruthlessness, vengeance
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    Holly Black
    “What do you think he did to me to deserve to die?' I ask.

    He stokes the fire. Sparks fly up. 'I assumed he broke your heart. An eye for an eye, a heart for a heart.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    tags: die, eye-for-an-eye, holly-black, jude, jude-duarte, locke, madoc, murder, the-folk-of-the-air, the-queen-of-nothing
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    Euripides
    “Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.”
    ― Euripides, Electra
    tags: an-eye-for-an-eye, blood, death, electra, euripides, greek-tragedy, revenge, the-ultimate-price, vengeance
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    “If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: an-eye-for-an-eye, forgiveness-quotes, judge-quotes, judgemental, life-lesson-quotes, life-lessons-quotations, life-lessons-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, mercy-quotes
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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
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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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    Franz Kafka
    “It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Trial
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    Franz Kafka
    “You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: kafka, letters, love
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    Franz Kafka
    “I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “Paths are made by walking”
    ― Franz Kafka
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