“They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are the masks behind which we see our own faces.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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“The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion”

― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“And, above all, do not be so ashamed of yourself, for that is at the root of it all.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there—to the edge of the world. There's...”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.”

― Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

“If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”

― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

“there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”

― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

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