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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

Neil Gaiman

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
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
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
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
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
Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
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Darkness Friendship Heart Hurt Imagination Leaving Love
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Philosophy Walk 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
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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People Philosophy Reality True Yourself
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
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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One Liner Story Talk
An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Angel Fall
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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Inspirational One Liner Scare
Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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Kiss Win
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
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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Break Dream Easy Heart People Weakness

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