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[edit] Quotation Archive

[edit] 2007

[edit] July 21

“ Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot. ”

—Dream in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman #19: "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

[edit] July 24

“ Inspiration always comes in the middle of the night, when you should be doing your homework. ”

— Amy Lee

[edit] August 1

“ Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it. I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass. It's always ugly - always! We can live with dignity - we can't die with it. ”

— Dr. Gregory House from House

[edit] August 8

“ Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it. ”

— Raistlin Majere from the Dragonlance series.

[edit] August 18

“ Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. ”

— Dōgen Zenji

[edit] August 26

“ Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past. ”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[edit] September 4

“ You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.		 ”

— Desiderata, by Max Ehrmann

[edit] September 11

“ Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. ”

— Vincent Van Gogh

[edit] September 21

“ Right and wrong are not what separate us and our enemies. It's our different standpoints, our perspectives that separate us. Both sides blame one another. There's no good or bad side. Just two sides holding different views. ”

— Squall Leonhart, from Final Fantasy VIII

[edit] September 27

“ A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me. If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds. ”

— Frida Kahlo

[edit] October 13

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