Nothing & Everything

Just me & my thoughts

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

T.S. Eliot

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Remember to forget yourself

Kamand Kojouri

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The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.

Floriano Martins

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Let our scars fall in love.”

Galway Kinnell

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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

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The child took a step, then another; he ascended, wishing all the while to descend; and approached, wishing all the while to retreat

Hugo, Victor. «The Man Who Laughs.»

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Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

George Orwell, 1984

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He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knew it, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent delirium of his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness.”

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“Maybe this world is another planet's hell.”

Aldous Huxley

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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29

[philosophy-quotes]

An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing.

Franz Clemens Brentano (via philosophy-quotes)

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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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The end was contained in the beginning.

George Orwell, 1984

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He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

George Orwell, 1984

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“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”

Stephen King, Night Shift

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“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”

Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life