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"Beautiful music stimulates beautiful thoughts."

"There are, literally, thousands of people all around the world who need nothing more than to meet someone just like you. To spend your time pretending to be someone else is just as senseless and fear-driven as spending your time speaking to people who don't understand you. Find your tribe. Let yourself be seen. You are already someone's hero."

"I paved the path to the very place I don't want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn't put me any place else."

"I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination."

"When we're not true to our thoughts and not true to the feelings we have deep inside, we find ourselves unhappy. Be courageous enough to align your life with your feelings, desires, and sense of purpose."

"Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed.People may still feel lonely even among the crowd."

"Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?"

"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."


"Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do."

"Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady."


"Life is supposed to be used in fulfilling our individual purposes of creation."

"I was with book, as a woman is with child."

"The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness."

"The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price."

"Life is not the end, and death is just the beginning..."

"I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it."


"God desires to free our country from darkness through our active civil position."

"Stop giving the best part of you to those unworthy of that gift."


"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam."


"A human should realize himself and be responsible for himself if he wants to become the true person he is to be."


"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."


"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."

"The perpetual movement of the water, rolling from and to unknown destinations, the voices of the sea shield us from the raging furies and shrieking sounds of dystopian surroundings, creating an unwinding veil for stilled happiness, acquainting us with the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. They are a soothing relief and let us listen to the voices of our inner world. ['Voices of the sea']"


"Necessity will reign if the domain of kingdom love is realized."

"At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration."

"Every time you get angry, you poison your own system."

"It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman."

"It is interesting to find that those whom I like, they also like me."

"Where there is anger there is always pain underneath."

"I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I've seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as 'flesh and blood'. In fact, 'flesh and blood' describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher's marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive."

"Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes."


"The devil is ready to do anything for us not to attain our goal."
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