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“We all have demons but the only way to beat them is if you drag them into the light. Walk with your ghosts but don’t let them own you. Always remember you did the best you could at that time, no second guessing about it because you can’t. It happened that way and you can’t change it so learn to live with it as best you can. And then leave it alone.”
― Gunship
― Gunship
“truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.”
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“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.”
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“Then I will suffer the shadows," Maya whispered, tasting her tears. "I will shed tears. For a life without Luminosity is a life without color, without taste, a life blind. I will suffer the shadows for the sake of the light." The”
― Kingdoms of Sand Box Set
― Kingdoms of Sand Box Set
Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy
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