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It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.

Neil Gaiman

You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
NEIL GAIMAN

Enough Goodness Heart Safety Yourself
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Heart Love Vulnerable 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 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
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
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
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
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Failure Person Philosophy Right Woman
Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep End Happiness Philosophy
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
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Believe Communication Deep Myself Problem
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Courage Future Philosophy
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
You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Yourself
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy See Sky World
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Children Explore One Liner
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy Secret World
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy
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
Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Book Greatness People Safety
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
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 want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Forget Impossible People Safety World
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
NEIL GAIMAN

Hope Inspirational Mistake Myself
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Book Dream Hands
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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