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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Neil Gaiman

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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Home Spiritual
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
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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Book Fantasy Man Naked
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
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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Greatness Happiness Missing Myself
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
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Deep Heart Love Vulnerable Yourself
A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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Deep Human Philosophy Stars
What do stars do? They shine.
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One Liner Shine Stars
Libraries are our friends.
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Friendship Library One Liner Ourselves
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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Book Myself Soul
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
An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Angel Fall
You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Change Philosophy Self Love Yourself
In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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Heart Kiss People Perfection See Touch
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Heart Love Lover Mad
I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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Believe Myself Philosophy True

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

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