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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

Neil Gaiman

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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Body Book Lose
I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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Carry Deep Hell Myself Philosophy Thinking
She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
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Dance Darkness Eyes Simplicity Sky Stars
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Change Lost Rise True
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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Hope Inspirational Mistake Myself
There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
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Herself Nature Rain Remember Try
You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Important People Trust Yourself
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
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
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
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
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Easy Hard Word Writing Yourself
Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Deep End Happiness Philosophy
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
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Death Deep Life
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
An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Angel Fall
Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Death Deep One Liner Wound
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy
What do stars do? They shine.
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One Liner Shine Stars
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
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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Library Right Worth
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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End Ideas Kill People
I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Easy Myself Problem
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Believe Communication Deep Myself Problem
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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Animal End Friendship Future Imagination Life Yourself
Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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Kiss Win
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Dream Lost Philosophy

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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