Ah! what caution must men use With those who look not at the deed alone, But spy into the thoughts with subtle skill! Dante Alighieri, Inferno

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“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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Do you like me?” No answer Anne Sexton

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I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I’m not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares. Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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“To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.” ― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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“We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.” ― Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love

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Being mythological does wonders for one’s ego. Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

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“The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.” ― H.P. Lovecraft

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“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.” ― Egon Schiele

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Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out. E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

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Tell the truth and shame the devil. Francois Rabelais

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Ripley: Ash, can you hear me? [slams her hands down on the table] Alien

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton

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“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.” ― Emily Dickinson

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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise. Horace

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But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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“But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.” ― Susanna Clarke

We are our choices. Jean-Paul Sartre

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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end? Franz Kafka

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Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgement by that name; in reality it is a constant court in perpetual session. Franz Kafka

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So that man, which looks too far before him, in the care of future time, hath his heart all the day long, gnawed on by Fear of death, poverty, or other calamity; and has no repose, nor pause of his anxiety, but in sleep. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people. Robert Caro

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“And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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“We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed” ― Louise Glück

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“Life was not longer something to endure, but to live. ” ― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream