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  • #1
    Bram Stoker
    “Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “From childhood's hour I have not been
    As others were; I have not seen
    As others saw; I could not bring
    My passions from a common spring.
    From the same source I have not taken
    My sorrow; I could not awaken
    My heart to joy at the same tone;
    And all I loved, I loved alone.
    Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
    Of a most stormy life- was drawn
    From every depth of good and ill
    The mystery which binds me still:
    From the torrent, or the fountain,
    From the red cliff of the mountain,
    From the sun that round me rolled
    In its autumn tint of gold,
    From the lightning in the sky
    As it passed me flying by,
    From the thunder and the storm,
    And the cloud that took the form
    (When the rest of Heaven was blue)
    Of a demon in my view.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Alone
    tags: different, poetry, strange
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    André Gide
    “I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
    ― André Gide, Prometheus Illbound
    tags: horror, life, mankind, writers
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk
    tags: black-humor, horror, trivia
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  • #5
    Stephen King
    “Invitation to Dance-
    It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.
    But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark.
    May I have the pleasure?”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: horror
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley
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  • #7
    Charles Bukowski
    “Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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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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    Stephen King
    “Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: horror, vampire
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: this-side-of-paradise
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    Thomas Mann
    “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
    tags: absurd, beauty, perverse, solitude
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    Thomas Mann
    “Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
    tags: solitude
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  • #13
    John Lennon
    “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth
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  • #14
    Megan Chance
    “You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”
    ― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
    tags: control, emotion, feel, feelings, madness, nightmares, running-away
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  • #15
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: death, love
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    Jess C. Scott
    “I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
    tags: dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, desire, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague, emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, love, lust, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural, supernaturalism, truth, urban-fantasy
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  • #18
    Bernie Mcgill
    “Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.”
    ― Bernie Mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet
    tags: gothic, historical-fiction, ireland, irish, literary-fiction, mother, passion, secret, victorian
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  • #19
    “This is not written for the young or the light of heart, not for the tranquil species of men whose souls are content with the simple pleasures of family, church, or profession. Rather, I write to those beings like myself whose existence is compounded by a lurid intermingling of the dark and the
    light; who can judge rationally and think with reason, yet who feel too keenly and churn with too great a passion; who have an incessant longing for happiness and yet are
    shadowed by a deep and persistent melancholy—those who grasp gratification where they may, but find no lasting comfort for the soul.”
    ― B.E. Scully
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  • #20
    Novala Takemoto
    “I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.”
    ― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)
    tags: gothic
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    Clive Barker
    “[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”
    ― Clive Barker
    tags: chaos, horror, illusion, oblivion, reality, truth
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  • #22
    “It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”
    ― Roy Disney
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  • #23
    Jennifer Crusie
    “Values aren't buses... They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are.”
    ― Jennifer Crusie
    tags: values
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  • #24
    Turcois Ominek
    “Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.”
    ― Turcois Ominek
    tags: attitude-toward-life, believe-in-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-lessons, self-love, values, wasting-time
    555 likes

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  • #25
    Steve Maraboli
    “Never compromise your values.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: accountability, choice, inspirational, life, responsibility, truth, values
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  • #26
    “Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.”
    ― John Ratzenberger
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  • #27
    Max Barry
    “That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.”
    ― Max Barry, Company
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  • #28
    Zoë Marriott
    “Better naked and alive than decent and dead, I thought.”
    ― Zoë Marriott, Shadows on the Moon
    tags: survival, values
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  • #29
    A.J. Darkholme
    “The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.”
    ― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
    tags: awareness, careful, caution, emotions, ethics, exploitable, exploitation, importance, important, influential, love, manipulation, mass-influence, mass-manipulation, morality, morals, others, people, persuasion, self-awareness, values
    8 likes



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