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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Neil Gaiman

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Fly Inspirational Kill Wake Up
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Philosophy Walk Yourself
You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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Enough Goodness Heart Safety Yourself
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
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
I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Easy Myself Problem
Even nothing can last forever.
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Forever Philosophy
You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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Believe Inspirational Yourself
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
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
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
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Change Lost Rise True
You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Life Moments Philosophy Reality Yourself
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Heart Love Lover Mad
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
Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Night One Liner Sin
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
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Courage Future 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
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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Goodness Hell Writing
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Death Reality Time
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
You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Yourself
I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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Crazy Myself
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
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

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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