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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

Neil Gaiman

You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Important People Trust 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
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
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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One Liner Story Talk
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
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
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
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
Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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Animal Believe Deserve
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 am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Easy Myself Problem
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
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
Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Deep Scared
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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Inspirational Life Pain Yourself
I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
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Enjoyment Kind Myself Philosophy

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