(Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am vast, I contain multitudes.)
~~~Avram Davidson "The Spoor of the Unicorn"

It is not much of a dream, considering the vast extent of the domains of dreamland, and their wonderful productions; it is only remarkable for being unusually restless, and unusually real.
~~~Charles Dickens The Mystery of Edwin Drood

...and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head, which could be pleasantly dispensed with - especially when she is in an ill humor and near knives.
~~~Charles Dickens Bleak House

"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies."
~~~Charles Dickens Bleak House

"It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained."
~~~Charles Dickens Bleak House

Mark these words. Right now. Turn to the person next to you and borrow a pencil for I shall not say this again: One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though...betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.
~~~Steven Dietz Dracula

I should brood if I were you. I should brood...and think on sporadic killings.
~~~Steven Dietz Dracula

What we do during our working hours determines what we have. What we do during our leisure hours determines what we are.
~~~George Eastman

...soon I would see the world anew, not as it should be, but as it is.
~~~Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum

This is better than real memory, because real memory, at the cost of much effort, learns to remember but not to forget.
~~~Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum

The problem with suicide is that sometimes you jump out the window and then change your mind between the eighth floor and the seventh. "Oh, if only I could go back!" Sorry, you can't, too bad. Splat.
~~~Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
~~~Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum

Better reality than a dream; if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
~~~Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum

I am convinced that even in the most commonplace text I will find a spark, if not of truth, at least of bizarre falsehood, and often the extremes meet. I will be bored only by the ordinary....
~~~Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum

Everyone has written poems in adolescence; true poets burn them, bad poets publish them.
~~~Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
~~~Albert Einstein

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing pure was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
~~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lots of things take time, and time was Momo's only form of wealth.
~~~Michael Ende Momo

They were experts on time just as leeches are experts on blood, and they acted accordingly.
~~~Michael Ende Momo

But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.
~~~Michael Ende Momo

A fool and a knave once set up house together: which shows what a fool the Fool was.
~~~Juliana H. Ewing

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