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Aug 02, 2025 07:42AM

“One of the great things about tales is how fast time may pass when not much of note is happening. Real life is never that way, and it is probably a good thing.”
― Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

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“More valuable than gold, more precious than life, is mercy bestowed upon he who hast not known its soft kiss”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Heir of Novron

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“It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.”
― H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

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“The love that we will never make together is the most beautiful, the most violent, the most pure, the most heady.”
― Serge Gainsbourg

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“It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

tags: existential, human-nature, inspiration, life, morality, philosophy, psychology, societal-expectations, society

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