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    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
    Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
    It lies behind stars and under hills,
    And empty holes it fills,
    It comes first and follows after,
    Ends life, kills laughter.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: darkness, gollum, hobbit, riddle
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    Shaun Hick
    “You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”
    ― Shaun Hick
    tags: appreciate, appreciate-life, bad-times, cancer, crawling, darkness, good-times, hard-times, holding-on, learning, life, life-lessons, pain, reward, shadows, sickness, struggle, suicide, sun, surviving, test
    581 likes

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    C.J. Roberts
    “People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade.”
    ― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark
    tags: darkness, safety
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  • #5
    Maya Angelou
    “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: loneliness, music, refuge
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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  • #7
    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: loneliness, people, scared, world
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    Kurt Cobain
    “I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: companionship, facade, friendship, genuine, kurt-cobain, shallow, superficial, true-blue
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Anyone can plot a course with a map or compass; but without a sense of who you are, you will never know if you're already home.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: blinded, chi, complicated, deja-vu, delusional-feelings, inner-balance, inner-peace, inner-wisdom, internal-dialogue, intuitiveness, listen, listen-to-your-angel, lost, not-connected, off-track, open-eyes, peace, same-team, self-assessment, self-awareness, self-fulfilling-karma, self-realization, still-not-listening, trusting-the-process, trusting-yourself, wake-up, wrong-advice, wrong-path, yin-yang
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  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
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  • #12
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
    tags: deep-thoughts, humans, love, maggie-stiefvater, nature, the-raven-boys, trees
    1457 likes

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  • #13
    Michelle Williams
    “I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”
    ― Michelle Williams
    tags: deep-thoughts
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  • #14
    Marie Symeou
    “We do not create life, we create death.”
    ― Marie Symeou
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    Louise Glück
    “Living things don't all require
    light in the same degree. Some of us
    make our own light: a silver leaf
    like a path no one can use, a shallow
    lake of silver in the darkness under the great maples.

    But you know this already.
    You and the others who think
    you live for truth and, by extension, love
    all that is cold.”
    ― Louise Glück, Poems, 1962-2012
    tags: alone, blank, cold, cold-hearted, darkness, emotionless, empty, flowers, gluck, lamium, leaf, light, living, loneliness, love
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  • #16
    “I forget what the weather was like that day, probably cloudy with a chance of emotion. All I remember is that it was windy; it was the type of wind that would blow your words in the opposite direction so they would never be heard.”
    ― Hillary Wen, Hildy Wen, Within Serenity Lies A Siren
    tags: emotionless, unheard, weather, wind
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    Jim Morrison
    “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
    ― Jim MORRISON
    tags: freedom, individuality, inspirational, mask, personality, revolution, truth
    4886 likes

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  • #18
    Greta Garbo
    “Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.”
    ― Greta Garbo
    tags: feelings, mask, smile, toughness
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  • #19
    Salman Rushdie
    “Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
    tags: face, honesty, mask, people
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    K.L. Toth
    “One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”
    ― K.L. Toth
    tags: confusion, identity, loss, mask, philosophy, sadness, self, sense-of-self, tragedy
    358 likes

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  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “A mask tells us more than a face.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: face, mask
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    P.D. James
    “Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.”
    ― P.D. James, Original Sin
    tags: life, mask, mystery, psychology, secret
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    Kelsey Sutton
    “How many of them have secrets they don't want the world to know? How many of them wear masks wherever they go? We're anything but typical.”
    ― Kelsey Sutton, Some Quiet Place
    tags: mask
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  • #24
    Vironika Tugaleva
    “You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.”
    ― Vironika Tugaleva
    tags: authentic-self, authenticity, be-yourself, identity, mask, self-awareness, self-love, who-you-are
    123 likes

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  • #25
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #27
    “Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
    tags: ambitions, bad-friends, boat, discredit, drill, drill-hole, evil-friends, fake, fake-friends, false, false-friends, food-for-thought, friends, hole, hypocrites, impact, israelmore-ayivor, leak, legacies, legacy, negative-friends, people, pretenders
    141 likes

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    Emilie Autumn
    “Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?”
    ― Emilie Autumn
    tags: insanity, insomnia, reality, sleep, wake
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    Banana Yoshimoto
    “That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done”
    ― Banana Yoshimoto, N.P
    tags: insomnia, night
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  • #30
    Poppy Z. Brite
    “The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
    ― Poppy Z. Brite
    tags: insomnia, night, sleep
    1661 likes



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