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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.

Neil Gaiman

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
Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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Be Yourself One Liner
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
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Dream Lost Philosophy
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 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
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
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Book Dream Hands
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Book Live Myself One Liner
Even nothing can last forever.
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Forever Philosophy
Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Deep Scared
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.
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Deep Heart Love Vulnerable Yourself
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Philosophy See Sky World
Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Death Deep One Liner Wound
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
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Friendship Love Myself Thinking
When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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Children Morning Myself Philosophy Travel
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
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
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
Libraries are our friends.
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Friendship Library One Liner Ourselves
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
An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Angel Fall
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
Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Night One Liner Sin
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
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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Inspirational Life Pain Yourself

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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