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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

  • #3
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

  • #4
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

  • #6
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #7
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

  • #8
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

  • #9
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

  • #10
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

  • #11
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #12
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

  • #13
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

  • #14
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  • #15
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

  • #16
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

  • #17
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  • #18
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  • #19
    Alexandra Horowitz
    “The air was already drunk with humidity when I stepped outside on that first morning.”
    Alexandra Horowitz, On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes

  • #20
    John Joseph Powell
    “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
    John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

  • #21
    Claudia Gray
    “I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and they glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try.”
    Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

  • #22
    Nikita Gill
    “You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?”
    Nikita Gill

  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

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    D.H. Lawrence
    “That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

  • #26
    Thomas Ligotti
    “In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports to you these facts: (1) there is nothing to do; (2) there is nowhere to go; (3) there is nothing to be; (4) there is no one to know. Without meaning-charged emotions keeping your brain on the straight and narrow, you would lose your balance and fall into an abyss of lucidity. And for a conscious being, lucidity is a cocktail without ingredients, a crystal clear concoction that will leave you hung over with reality. In perfect knowledge there is only perfect nothingness, which is perfectly painful if what you want is meaning in your life.”
    Thomas Ligotti

  • #27
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #28
    Carlos Castaneda
    “The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
    Carlos Castaneda

  • #29
    Carlos Castaneda
    “The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”
    Carlos Castaneda

  • #30
    “I think our souls are always being hole-punched, like old train tickets. In the end, we're all perforated. If we were buckets, we wouldn't hold water.”
    Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People



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