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“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“I used to build dreams about you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when we look back everything is different.”
― C.S. Lewis

“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."

Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“Creaky voice: I am the scientist of my moods. I. Observe. Myself. Microscopically. But it looks like... nothing's there...I write and shudder with effects of my handiwork beneath the microscope, thinking it must be God's work. I am nothing and I am God, therefore... How'd it come to this?
Never mind.”
― Richard Hell, Go Now

“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”
― Richard Siken

“To them I was Hamlet in a long line of Hamlets. My problems were unimpressive and not unique. I had a grief counselor, like everyone, and a suicide counselor, because I had said the wrong thing...The suicide counselor said the people who hadn't shown up weren't going to show up, that the ones who had stopped coming would not be coming back.”
― Richard Siken, I Do Know Some Things

“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“We defy augury. There is special providence in
the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to
come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—the
readiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is't
to leave betimes, let be. (Hamlet 5.2.217-224)”
― Shakespeare, William