Laozi - Quotes

 Manifest plainness,

Embrace simplicity,

Reduce selfishness,

Have few desires. 

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Anne Rice - Quotes

 To be godless is probably the first step to innocence, 

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Richard Bach - Quotes

 You're always free to change your mind

and choose a different future, or a different past.



 

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Francesca Lia Block - Quotes

 War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living. (54-55) 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. 

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Mark Twain - Quotes

 Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. 

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Virginia Woolf - Quotes

 Growing up is loosing some illusions, in order to acquire others. 

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Libba Bray - Quotes

 We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth. 

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