“Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.”
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“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”
“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
“If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.”
“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”