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#1

“What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.”
― Albert Camus

tags: camus, the-fall, truth

#2

“The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possesses by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it's your whole soul.' (Landscapes of the Heart by Motojiro Kajii)”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

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#3

“It’s funny. No matter where you go, or how many books you read, you still know nothing, you haven’t seen anything. And that’s life.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

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#4

“Life is nothing but riddles … we spend our whole lives puzzling them out. Sadly, as soon as we find the answer, the riddle changes. Does it not?”
― Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

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#5

“I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe.”
― Anaïs Nin, House of Incest

tags: fear, isolation, love

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#6

“For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.”
― Albert Camus

tags: the-myth-of-sisyphus

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#7

“I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

tags: accusations, guilt, justice

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#8

“C'est que je n'ai jamais grand chose à dire. Alors je me tais.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#9

“We're going forward, but nothing changes.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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#10

“I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

tags: explanations, gazing, inexplicability, nonconformist, nonfconformism, quietness, silence, smoking

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#11

“That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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#12

“But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: heart

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#13

“And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: dreams, end, happy-endings, life, stories

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#14

“My life is hers, and I would give the last drop of blood in my body for her.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#15

“I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. I always thought it was just a matter of time, but I was wrong.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#16

“The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#17

“Sleep has no place it can call its own.”
― Bram Stoker

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#18

“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951

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#19

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#20

“He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: dreams, inspirational

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#21

“Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: willful-ignorance

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#22

“I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: stories

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#23

“Yes," Poppet says. "But what's the use in seeing the future if I can't do anything to stop it?" " You cannot stop things," Celia says. "You can only be prepared for them to happen.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#24

“We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#25

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
― Jonathan Harker's Journal, Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#26

“Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pulls us in different ways. Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until the strain becomes too great, and we break.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#27

“I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#28

“Now that you are willing to understand, you have taken the first step to understand.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: bram-stoker, dracula, open-mindedness, understanding

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#29

“I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#30

“You are nearest and dearest and all the world to me. Our souls are knit into one, for all life and all time. - Mina Harker”
― Bram Stoker

tags: dracula, love, mina-harker

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