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Some Japanese Ghosts

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“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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“You should know by now that I've already had greatness. I traded it for mediocrity and some measure of sanity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Legion

tags: humor

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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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“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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“But I can't be alone, can I? Of course not; I'm not that special. Anomalies like me exist all around the world. So when does an anomaly quit being an anomaly and start being just the way things happen to be? What if you and I are not the last of our kinds, but one of the first? The first of better creatures in a better wold? We can hope, can't we? That we're not of the past, but the future?”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

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