“Maybe people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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“he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“It is that our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanour and conciliating words, I should first win their favour and afterwards their love.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“In dreams you don’t need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don’t exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don’t hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; seeing none before myself had ever written of that country, wherein are above five-and-twenty kingdoms...”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“one girl is worth more than twenty boys.”

― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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