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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.

Neil Gaiman

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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Deep Existence Fairy Tale True
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Death Reality Time
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
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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End Ideas Kill People
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
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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People Philosophy Reality True Yourself
Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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Fall In Love Herself Rain Stop Thinking Time Yourself
He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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Deep Myself Run
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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Book Gift Greatness World
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
And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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Failure Person Philosophy Right Woman
What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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Deep Dream Heaven Hell Philosophy Power Spiritual
It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
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Believe Happiness Live People Yourself
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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Inspirational Life Pain Yourself
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Philosophy Walk Yourself
I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Easy Myself Problem

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