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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.

Neil Gaiman

You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Life Moments Philosophy Reality Yourself
In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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Heart Kiss People Perfection See Touch
Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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Animal Believe Deserve
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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One Liner Story Talk
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
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
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
You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Important People Trust 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
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
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
I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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Carry Deep Hell Myself Philosophy Thinking
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.
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Philosophy Secret World
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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End Ideas Kill People
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
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
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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Adventure Freedom. Pain Place
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
Even nothing can last forever.
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Forever Philosophy
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Believe Communication Deep Myself Problem
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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Book Fantasy Man Naked
Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Deep End Happiness Philosophy
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
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
You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Yourself
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

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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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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