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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!

Neil Gaiman

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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Believe Happiness Live People 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
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
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
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Dream Lost Philosophy
Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Fight Library One Liner
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
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Courage Future Philosophy
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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Life Myself Teaching Worth
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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Courage Gain Inspirational Yourself
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
Words save our lives, sometimes.
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Live One Liner Save Word
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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Library Right Worth
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Believe Myself Philosophy True
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Children Explore One Liner
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Let Go Philosophy Yourself
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Goodness Lying Story True
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Death Deep Life
Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Book Greatness People Safety
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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One Liner Story Talk
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
You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
NEIL GAIMAN

Life Moments Philosophy Reality Yourself
Libraries are our friends.
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Friendship Library One Liner Ourselves
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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Alive Believe Deep Enjoyment Game Life 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
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Heart Love Lover Mad

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