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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.

Neil Gaiman

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Children Explore One Liner
What do stars do? They shine.
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One Liner Shine Stars
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Death Deep Life
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Dream Lost Philosophy
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
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
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
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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God Myself Time
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Book Dream Hands
Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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Animal Believe Deserve
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Philosophy See Sky World
Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Book Greatness People Safety
It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
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Let Go Philosophy Yourself
People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Forget Impossible People Safety World
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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Poet Quite Winner Writing

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