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“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
― The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
― The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
“When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.”
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.”
― Venus in Arms
― Venus in Arms
“Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable; I am an original. I'm not falling behind or running late. I'm not standing still: I am lying in wait.”
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“Love has the power to create an inviting space in the lives of people. But if daily routine kills dreamy or passionate thoughts, the constraint of the room may become oppressive and the emptiness unbearable. The room loses then its original fullness and turns into a place of nothingness. ( " Another empty room" )”
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“Eureka" can be an answer to a question we have never asked. It can be the articulation of a sudden and unforeseen idea or the expression of a magic moment that throws us into a new world. It acts like a radiant sunbeam that comes out of the blue and illuminates a dim past, opening a new, dynamic horizon. It may even be a trivial but lucky encounter with new friends, who let us be what we are in our imagination: original and undifferentiated. (“Waiting for Eureka” )”
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“Beef had hit $300 a kilo. Not that he could recall the last time he’d tasted real beef.”
― The Eden Paradox
― The Eden Paradox
“They must train you pretty good not to react to shit like that. Must take stuff out of you.” Vince’s eyes intensified then broke her gaze. ‘Actually, it’s more like they put stuff in.”
― The Eden Paradox
― The Eden Paradox
“Vasquez faced off Vince. “We’ll meet in hell for sure.” Vince didn’t blink. “I have a condo there waiting for me. You’re welcome for tea. Now, give the order, Colonel.”
― The Eden Paradox
― The Eden Paradox
“She stared at her console, wanting to punch it. Her dream, running to save her life, to save everything, was all going to come true down on the planet’s surface. And when it did, she knew this time she wasn’t going to wake up.”
― The Eden Paradox
― The Eden Paradox
“He wondered what his father had been thinking in those last final moments as he was slipping away, whether the heroism, the honour, the war, or maybe, just maybe, the smaller people in his life, his family.”
― The Eden Paradox
― The Eden Paradox
“Take it from me, kid, sometimes it’s okay to run. You run as fast as you damn well can.”
― The Eden Paradox
― The Eden Paradox
“Perhaps Mozart’s Requiem would be fitting music for the end of the world. She began to hum Dies Irae, recalling its first performance in Vienna.”
― The Eden Paradox
― The Eden Paradox
“The people you think are the happiest are usually the saddest; that's because they see more and feel deeper than others do. They are the sensitive and they see beyond the veil of what's tangible and what's not. They wear no masks and can see through the masks of others. The sensitive to life are few in number, which is why they feel so alone...because they are all alone.”
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“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.”
― Healology
― Healology
“Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.”
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“As they reached the concert grounds in front of the Great Pyramid, Dani was captivated by the magic of the entire scene. A full moon was rising, casting a gentle shine over the entire area. Spotlights shone on Cheops, the Sphinx, Khafre, and Menkaure, and a vast swarm of hundreds of bats swooped above the stage, devouring mosquitoes as if they were protecting the legendary band from harm at this site of ancient power.”
― Time Chain
― Time Chain
“A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.
Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“You do not have to feel truer than others in order to be original.
You just need to be different and keep aspiring to be a better you.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
You just need to be different and keep aspiring to be a better you.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Trad had refused to stop until every last one of the Alliance Innesomids had been brought back under Octunnumi protection.”
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
“Wandering these shelves, the many mechanical animals... ambled about their day, unaffected by the presence of Maiegryn and her children.”
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
“Right, so I wake up in the morgue as me, Grace, but I’m eighteen again and I’m like wow!”
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
“I can see into your heart. You have good intentions. You can’t go wrong when you start with good intentions.”
― Mission: Subhero
― Mission: Subhero
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