At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got! ― Yann Martel

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The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go. ― Shannon L. Alder

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There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow. ― Aaron Lauritsen

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I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop. ― Libba Bray

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Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it. ― Boris Pasternak

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My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. ― Haruki Murakami

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There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt. ― Gena Showalter

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Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. But you don't. Because we are the ants. ― Shaun David Hutchinson

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You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone. ― Amit Ray

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