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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

Neil Gaiman

A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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Deep Human Philosophy Stars
You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Yourself
I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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Children Fantasy Myself Mystery Story
Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Deep Scared
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Death Deep Life
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
People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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Deep Dream Hope Memories People Reality Thinking
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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Inspirational Life Pain 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
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
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
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Death Reality Time
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Heart Love Lover Mad
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
Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Night One Liner Sin
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Courage Future Philosophy
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
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
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Children Explore One Liner
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
What do stars do? They shine.
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One Liner Shine Stars
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
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
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
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 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

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