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    Margaret Atwood
    “Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
    tags: nightmare
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    Ned Vizzini
    “It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare."
    "And what is that nightmare, Craig?"
    "Life.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: depression, life, nightmare
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    Stephen King
    “For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.”
    ― Stephen King, It
    tags: clown, eddie, it, king, nightmare, pennywise, reality, stephen
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    “Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man.”
    ― James "The Rev" Sullivan
    tags: avenged-sevenfold, fiction, james, james-sullivan, music, nightmare, sullivan, the-rev
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    Erna Grcic
    “You can hear it in the midst of the night
    While your gaze roams the vast plains on the ceiling”
    ― Erna Grcic, Beneath the Surface
    tags: clock, clocks, clockwork, insomnia, night, nightmare, nightmares, ticking, time
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    Wilfred Owen
    “In all my dreams before my helpless sight
    He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.”
    ― Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
    tags: haunted, nightmare, ptsd, world-war-1
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Mo Willems
    “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
    ― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
    tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology
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    Daniel Keyes
    “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology
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    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
    tags: music, philosophy, revelation, wisdom
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    Axie Oh
    “If I had wings, would you steal them?"
    "If you had wings," he said, with all the sincerity he possessed, "I'd want to see you fly.”
    ― Axie Oh, The Floating World
    tags: celestial, celestial-beings, korean, korean-mythology
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