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"It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world."
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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."
"My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world."
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
"It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me."
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"The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world."
"I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats its wings in one corner of the globe and with that single action changes the weather halfway across the world."
"The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort."
"Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them."
"Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help."
"I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible."
"But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind."
"Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you."
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