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But what reality was ever made by realists?

Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn people.

Heinrich Heine, Almansor (One of the first works the Nazi's burned)

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Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold.

The Shins, Australia

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I eat like a Bohemian and drink like a German, thanks be to God for this. Amen.

Martin Luther

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We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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Since I left you I found the world so new...

The Avalanches, Since I Left You

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I lost my fear in your arms...

The Avett Brothers, It Goes On and On

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…many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.

Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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This is mankind's common failure, never to anticipate storms when the sea is calm.

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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Some govern the world, others are the world.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquietude (trans. Richard Zenith)

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The only way to be in harmony with life is to be in disharmony with ourselves.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquietude (trans. Richard Zenith)

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To sink is the easiest of matters...

Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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You cannot stop me, I spend 30,000 lives a month.

Napoleon Bonaparte to the Austrian Empire's Foreign Minister, Klemens von Metternich

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And drynke whan thow dryest

William Langland, Piers Plowman

"And drink when you are dry"

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Few men deserve their arrogance.

[shortquotations]

Humankind cannot bear much reality.

T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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Every inch a person’s body travels on the road of separation seems like miles to the heart.

— Naguib Mahfouz, from Palace Walk (Anchor, 1990)