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"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."

- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."

- Gabriel García Márquez

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"The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there."

- Bart D. Ehrman

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"All knowledge hurts."

- Cassandra Clare

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"She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because..."

- Connie Brockway

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"He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment."

- Henry Miller

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"We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends."

- Kim Stanley Robinson

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"The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. It had been answered long, long ago, claimed Moss; man's very essence lay in the fact that he..."

- Paul Bowles

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"I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it’s even harder to recognize the truth when it’s buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like."

- Shannon Mullen

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"How can any of us even know what to believe anymore? Our culture’s full of so much phoniness and deception. Companies advertise products to make us believe that we will be more beautiful, more healthy..."

- Shannon Mullen

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