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They say there's no such place... as Paradise. Even if you search to the ends of the Earth, there's nothing there. No matter how far you walk, it's always the same road. It just goes on and on. But, in spite of that... Why am I so driven to find it? A voice calls to me... It says, "Search for Paradise. ↗

— Kiba Wolf's Rain

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These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

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If you start most of your sentences with 'Why Can't', 'Why Not', or 'What if', you'll build a stronger imagination. ↗

— Corey Aaron Burkes

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Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

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You have to get out in some rain to find your rainbows ↗

— Brad Perks

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We have nothing to fear but fear itself ↗

— Mark Walden

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Someone asked them a question about their poetry, and whether it was hard having to relive their words each time they performed. Their reply was that although they had moved beyond that--from the person or event that inspired their words at that point in time--it doesn't mean someone listening to them wasn't in that. So? So what if heartache you wrote last year isn't what you're feeling today. It may be exactly what the person in the front row is feeling. What you're feeling now, and the person you may reach with your words five years from now--that's why you write poetry. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

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What is this world's delight, Lightening that mocks the night, Brief as even as bright ↗

— John Keats

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But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

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