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There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all. ↗

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I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a strange new world. I'd read it more times than I could remember, and although I sneered at the thought of a magical land with friendly, talking animals, there were times when I wished, in my most secret moments, that I could find a hidden door that would take us allout of this place. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

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For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated "dose" of life. I said, almost indignantly, "That's the danger of it, it prepares you to live, but at the same time, it exposes you to disappointments because it gives a heightened concept of living, it leaves out the dull or stagnant moments. You, in your books, also have a heightened rhythm, and a sequence of events so packed with excitement that I expected all your life to be delirious, intoxicated." Literature is an exaggeration, a dramatization, and those who are nourished on it (as I was) are in great danger of trying to approximate an impossible rhythm. Trying to live up to Dostoevskian scenes every day. And between writers there is a straining after extravagance. We incite each other to jazz-up our rhythm. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

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Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes. ↗