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#1

“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”
― Neil Gaiman , The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

tags: hell

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#2

“Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you've ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

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#3

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: fuck-off

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#4

“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: love

1187 likes

#5

“It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#6

“Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#7

“She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#8

“Love songs sweet enough to rot your teeth.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sleep

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#9

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: clouds, star

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#10

“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

1590 likes

#11

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

947 likes

#12

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

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#13

“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding

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#14

“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian

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#15

“Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

tags: independent-thought

508 likes

#16

“Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

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#17

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

6597 likes

#18

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#19

“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: intelligence, stupidity

812 likes

#20

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

3463 likes

#21

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

2805 likes

#22

“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

1483 likes

#23

“Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

758 likes

#24

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: brotherhood-of-man, people, scout

3680 likes

#25

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

4362 likes

#26

“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: motherhood

2240 likes

#27

“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: bluffing, confusion

2110 likes

#28

“When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

tags: death

284 likes

#29

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines

2614 likes

#30

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

tags: change

2275 likes

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