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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: love
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    Robert Barr
    “No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another”
    ― Robert Barr, Selected Stories of Robert Barr
    tags: communication, telepathy
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    Florian Armas
    “It’s the end of the day, but it feels like dawn, and a new beginning. It comes to me that both twilight periods are, in fact, symmetrical events on opposite sides of midnight, a cycle of endless creation and destruction, an Ouroboros.”
    ― Florian Armas, The Shamans at the End of Time
    tags: beginning, dawn-and-dusk, life-philosophy, midnight, nightfall, ouroboros, twilight
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    Jean Genet
    “I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth inordinately and turning it around over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is my way of seeing the end of the world.”
    ― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers
    tags: ouroboros
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    Dennis William Hauck
    “There is a huge new frontier awaiting our exploration, and it is not the macrocosm of the universe but the microcosm of the mind.”
    ― Dennis William Hauck, The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation
    tags: as-above-so-below, growth, look-within, macrocosm, microcosm, ouroboros, personal-development, shadow-work, understanding
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    “What is it like to disregard the body? How do we get around ourselves when we are always in the way? I wonder how badly the serpent wants the loop to end, to consume himself until the flesh is gone. Is that possible? What would that look like, that nothing-space? To complete the autocannibalism of revisiting one’s own trauma, for it to be over?”
    ― Alice Lesprenance
    tags: healing, ouroboros, trauma
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    Edwin Powell Hubble
    “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
    ― Edwin Hubble
    tags: exploration, inquiry, science
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    Deb Caletti
    “It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.”
    ― Deb Caletti, The Queen of Everything
    tags: choose, color, god, life, lipstick, love, man, men, package, pick
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    J. Sterling
    “I recognized you instantly. All of our lives flashed through my mind in a split second. I felt a pull so strongly towards you that I almost couldn't stop it.”
    ― J. Sterling, In Dreams
    tags: love, past-lives, reincarnation, soulmates
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    Sarah Dessen
    “What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: enjoy-life, inspirational, self-actualization
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    Sarah Dessen
    “I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: unrequited-love
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: bereavement, grief
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