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#1

“There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

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#2

“That was the thing about Loki. You resented him even when you were at your most grateful, and you were grateful to him even when you hated him the most.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

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#3

“Cease your weeping!" he said. "It is I, Loki, here to rescue you!"
Idunn glared at him with red-rimmed eyes. "It is you who are the source of my troubles." she said.
"Well, perhaps. But that was so long ago. That was yesterday's Loki. Today's Loki is here to save you and take you home.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

tags: loki, troubles

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#4

“Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki’s fault. It saves a lot of time.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

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#5

“In their huge bedroom that night, Tyr said to Thor, "I hope you know what you are doing."

"Of course I do," said Thor. But he didn't. He was just doing whatever he felt like doing. That was what Thor did best.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

tags: confidence, instinct, knowing-best, thor, tyr

24 likes

#6

“Rebirth always follows death.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

tags: cycle, death, rebirth

81 likes

#7

“Of course it was Loki. It's always Loki.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

tags: loki, thor

170 likes

#8

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: absurd

1361 likes

#9

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

2723 likes

#10

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7250 likes

#11

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

4442 likes

#12

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

11082 likes

#13

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

7812 likes

#14

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

3934 likes

#15

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: inspirational

1281 likes

#16

“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animals, four, humans, legs, two

874 likes

#17

“The only good human being is a dead one.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: misquote, paraphrased

846 likes

#18

“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: dystopia, political

563 likes

#19

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: reading, words, writing

5403 likes

#20

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

4524 likes

#21

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: loneliness

2323 likes

#22

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: passion

1844 likes

#23

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting

1280 likes

#24

“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

830 likes

#25

“It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

252 likes

#26

“It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

107 likes

#27

“But every one belongs to every one else”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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#28

“Pain's a delusion."
Oh, is it?" said the Savage and, picking up a thick hzel switch, strode forward.
The man from the The Fordian Science Monitor made a dash for his helicopter.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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#29

“Oh, what fun it would be", he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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#30

“All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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