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    Mark Haddon
    “On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”
    ― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    tags: empty, perspective, rain, silence, white-noise
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: endurance, life, loss, love
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    Haruki Murakami
    “That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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    Stephen King
    “Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: horror, vampire
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    Poe
    “Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”
    ― Poe
    tags: lyrics, misattributed-edgar-allan-poe
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “I have to return some videotapes”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
    tags: american, bale, bret, christian, easton, ellis, funny, humor, psycho, return, videotapes
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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I am Jack's smirking revenge.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Look up at the stars and you're gone.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Carl Sagan
    “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: atoms, cosmos, dna, sense-of-wonder, stars
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    Haruki Murakami
    “But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
    ― Haruki Murakami
    tags: depressing
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    Lewis Carroll
    “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: appreciation, nature, seasons, snow, winter
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    Lewis Carroll
    “If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Lewis Carroll
    “I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, inspirational-quotes, lewis-carroll
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Gus Van Sant
    “Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.”
    ― Gus Van Sant, Good Will Hunting
    tags: good-will-hunting
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    ― E. E. Cummings
    tags: death, life, poetry
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
    5016 likes



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