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"You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure,That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here."
T. S. Eliot
"You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure,That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here."
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"We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there."
Auliq Ice
"We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there."
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"It is pointless to try to make an illusion real."
Sunday Adelaja
"It is pointless to try to make an illusion real."
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"To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place."
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"What you persistently think becomes your reality."
Debasish Mridha
"What you persistently think becomes your reality."
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"The visible emerged from the invisible."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"The visible emerged from the invisible."
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"A woman to suck a dick... isn't a fact or mystery or complexity... it's simplicity. You just dial a number... to order a BIATCH.. ."
Deyth Banger
"A woman to suck a dick... isn't a fact or mystery or complexity... it's simplicity. You just dial a number... to order a BIATCH.. ."
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"As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on the table. I did as I was told, saying nothing. My reality seemed to have left me and was now wandering around nearby. I hope it can find me, I thought."
Haruki Murakami
"As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on the table. I did as I was told, saying nothing. My reality seemed to have left me and was now wandering around nearby. I hope it can find me, I thought."
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"And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you'll wonder what all the planning and palaver was for, when in the end it always comes down to the same five minutes' worth of blood, pain, and stupidity."
Stephen King
"And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you'll wonder what all the planning and palaver was for, when in the end it always comes down to the same five minutes' worth of blood, pain, and stupidity."
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"Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men."
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"Good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ..."
John Geddes
"Good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ..."
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"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."
Abhijit Naskar
"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."
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"Reality is a changeless concept that only perception can mask."
Lionel Suggs
"Reality is a changeless concept that only perception can mask."
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"Nothing Is Unusual (NIU)."
Toba Beta
"Nothing Is Unusual (NIU)."
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"There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish or simply unlucky."
Thomm Quackenbush
"There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish or simply unlucky."
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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."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"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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"Let living know they will die one day. They ought to live wisely."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Let living know they will die one day. They ought to live wisely."
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"To put a dreamer in their place isn't dreaming."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"To put a dreamer in their place isn't dreaming."
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"The false is nothing but an imitation of the true."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The false is nothing but an imitation of the true."
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"We live as best we may in a world of worms."
Jeanette Winterson
"We live as best we may in a world of worms."
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"What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour."
John Green
"What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour."
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"Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows."
David Mitchell
"Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows."
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"For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations....Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle."
Alain de Botton
"For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations....Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle."
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"We" - this "we" is everyone who has never experienced anything like what they went through - don't understand. We don't get it. We truly can't imagine what it was like. We can't imagine how dreadful, how terrifying war is; and how normal it becomes. Can't understand, can't imagine. That's what every soldier, and every journalist and aid worker and independent observer who has put in time under fire, and had the luck to elude the death that struck down others nearby, stubbornly feels. And they are right."
Susan Sontag
"We" - this "we" is everyone who has never experienced anything like what they went through - don't understand. We don't get it. We truly can't imagine what it was like. We can't imagine how dreadful, how terrifying war is; and how normal it becomes. Can't understand, can't imagine. That's what every soldier, and every journalist and aid worker and independent observer who has put in time under fire, and had the luck to elude the death that struck down others nearby, stubbornly feels. And they are right."
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"We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours."
Bryant McGill
"We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours."
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"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."
Dejan Stojanovic
"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."
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"Most people are scumbags. Accept it. Let go. Chill out, douchebags."
Fakeer Ishavardas
"Most people are scumbags. Accept it. Let go. Chill out, douchebags."
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"We are in this fairyland on sufferance, it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"We are in this fairyland on sufferance, it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world."
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"If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today."
Toba Beta
"If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today."
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"Sometimes we don't get second chances. Sometimes things just end."
Colleen Hoover
"Sometimes we don't get second chances. Sometimes things just end."
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"The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense."
Aldous Huxley
"The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense."
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"Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A."
Ayn Rand
"Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A."
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"It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience."
Aldous Huxley
"It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience."
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"Different creatures have different eyes. Human eyes (unlike, say, a cat's eyes, or an octopus's) are only made to see one version of reality at a time."
Neil Gaiman
"Different creatures have different eyes. Human eyes (unlike, say, a cat's eyes, or an octopus's) are only made to see one version of reality at a time."
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"The kingdom of God is here."
Sunday Adelaja
"The kingdom of God is here."
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"You can't be in my world...You live in this one."
Donna Lynn Hope
"You can't be in my world...You live in this one."
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"Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do."
Donna Lynn Hope
"Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do."
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"She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries."
Thomm Quackenbush
"She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries."
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"You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show."
Stephen King
"You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show."
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"In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines."
Bangambiki Habyarimana
"In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines."
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"If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth."
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"The people are the biggesthorror show on earth,have been forcenturies."
Charles Bukowski
"The people are the biggesthorror show on earth,have been forcenturies."
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"Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care...Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who at lucky! As for the other men, stagnant night is upon them."
Victor Hugo
"Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care...Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who at lucky! As for the other men, stagnant night is upon them."
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"Dreams are all very well but are not known to pay the mortgage."
Auliq Ice
"Dreams are all very well but are not known to pay the mortgage."
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"It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet."
Munia Khan
"It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet."
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"There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win."
George R. R. Martin
"There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win."
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"But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then-all the combinations made-they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures."
Leo Tolstoy
"But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then-all the combinations made-they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures."
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"For a moment he came near to sharing their incredible belief-it would do no harm to mutter a prayer of thanks to the God of his childhood, the God of the Common and the castle, that no ill had yet come to Sarah's child. Then a sonic boom scattered the words of the hymn and shook the old glass of the west window and rattled the crusader's helmet which hung on a pillar, and he was reminded again of the grown-up world. He went quickly out and bought the Sunday papers. The Sunday Express had a headline on the front page-"Child's Body Found in Wood."
Graham Greene
"For a moment he came near to sharing their incredible belief-it would do no harm to mutter a prayer of thanks to the God of his childhood, the God of the Common and the castle, that no ill had yet come to Sarah's child. Then a sonic boom scattered the words of the hymn and shook the old glass of the west window and rattled the crusader's helmet which hung on a pillar, and he was reminded again of the grown-up world. He went quickly out and bought the Sunday papers. The Sunday Express had a headline on the front page-"Child's Body Found in Wood."
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"When you start dreaming- what's there to boast?Life may treat you like a living ghostBrokenness haunts you until you perishDeath will bring you nothing to cherish."
Munia Khan
"When you start dreaming- what's there to boast?Life may treat you like a living ghostBrokenness haunts you until you perishDeath will bring you nothing to cherish."
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"A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby."
Toba Beta
"A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby."
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