As-tu déjà été amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnérable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et le coeur en grand et du coup, n'importe qui peut venir te bousiller de l'intérieur. On se forge des défenses, on se fabrique une belle armure pour que rien ne puisse jamais nous atteindre, et voilà qu'un imbécile, pas bien différent des autres s'immisce dans notre imbécile de vie... On lui offre un morceau de soi alors que l'autre n'a rien demandé. Il a juste fait un truc débile un jour, genre t'embrasser ou te sourire, mais, depuis, ta vie ne t'appartient plus. L'amour te prend en otage. Il s'insinue en toi. Il te dévore de l'intérieur et te laisse tout seul à chialer dans le noir, au point qu'un simple phrase comme "je crois qu'on devrait rester amis" te fait l'effet d'un éclat de verre qu'on t'aurait planté dans le coeur. Ca fait mal. Pas juste dans ton imagination. Pas juste dans ta tête. C'est une douleur à fendre l'âme, qui s'incruste en toi et te déchire du dedans. Je hais l'amour.


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Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki�...
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You're a poem?' I repeated.

She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ...
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Kiss a lover,
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure.

Fac...
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
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I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll m...
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl...
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God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which migh...
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchc...
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with se...
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The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that t...
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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning...
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My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ...
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A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it....
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You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak...
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And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into ...
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Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obs...
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You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only...
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Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doe...
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endur...
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you ar...
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest a...
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CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.

MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, hors...
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Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.
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Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caug...
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I think all - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the ...
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I think all geniuses - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship ...
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Even nothing cannot last forever.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doi...
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine boo...
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And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only ...
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And all the time we spent in this place would fade and vanish, like a dawn dream on waking that colo...
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You shouldn't trust the storyteller; only trust the story.
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Value's in what people think. Not in what's real. Value's in dreams, boy.
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We write our names in the sand, and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Bodies are strange. Some people have real problems with the stuff that goes on inside them. You find...
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Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees tha...
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If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?
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Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of ...
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I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.
Yeah, everybody wonders. ...
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It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.
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You know what happens when you dream of falling? Sometimes you wake up.
Sometimes the fall kil...
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Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
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Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? ...
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Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.
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It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do...
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You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And...
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There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized...
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There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worl...
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We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright ...
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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a boo...
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting o...
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I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrif...
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We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bea...
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The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They a...
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves i...
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A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because ...
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Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
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I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ...
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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...
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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay t...
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I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa...
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Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point.
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Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...
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Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t...
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe...
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As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
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Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.
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I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy...
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, ...
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One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...
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The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
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I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ...
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You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic...
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a...
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When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
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Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ...
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As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th...
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I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi...
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Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
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Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l...
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To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu...
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Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe...
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I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ...
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What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven?
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Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ...
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The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge...
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Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w...
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This little piggy went to Hades
This little piggy stayed home
This little piggy ate raw an...
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