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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

Neil Gaiman

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
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Dream Endurance Forget True
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
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Absence Devil Friendship Lost Season
People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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Deep Dream Hope Memories People Reality Thinking
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Fly Inspirational Kill Wake Up
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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Life Myself Reality
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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Deep Goodness Lying Story True
Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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Bravery Herself Scare Yourself
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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One Liner Story Talk
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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Philosophy Secret World
Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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Choice Life Path
I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Easy Myself Problem
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Book Dream Hands
I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
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Enjoyment Kind Myself Philosophy
When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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Children Morning Myself Philosophy Travel
You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Life Moments Philosophy Reality Yourself
All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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Learning Philosophy Yourself

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