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"Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing."
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"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."
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"We can't have what we want and nothing is gonna change it."
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Personal Development
"You build your reality from the desires and thoughts that you focused upon."
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"The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads."
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"The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other."
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"It is so easy to dream but so hard to forget them."
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"I like reality. It tastes like bread."
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"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."
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"What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour."
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"It's a fact that at the deeper levels there are less humans."
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"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness."
Mortality
"And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank."
Philosophy
"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."
Civilization
"Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last--only at the very last. But the wilderness found him out early, and had taken vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude--and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core."
Philosophy
"One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad."
Philosophy
"In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men."
Wisdom
"Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath:The horror! The horror!"
Literature
"Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion of not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity - like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar."
Psychology
"I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral."
Humor
"All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions."
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