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Beyond the Crooked Trees: A story of the Hoia Forest, one of the world’s most terrifying places

by Cristian Tusa (Goodreads Author)

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Night Watch

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“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
― John Lennon

tags: god, organized-religion, religion, spirituality

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“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Neitzsche

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“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: attributed-no-source, cats, life, music

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“You never know how much you need music until you don't have it. I missed it so much my heart hurt.”
― Damien Echols, Life After Death

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