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The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

I don’t want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven’t I?

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up and write “Fuck you” right under your nose.

There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out.

His growing lack of concern for the others hardly surprised him, whereas previously he had prided himself on being considerate.

And then there were none.

I’m the motherfucking fox, no one can catch the fox.” -Takumi

We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are.

So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.

It is madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn. To give up on your dreams because one didn’t come true. To lose faith in prayers because one was not answered, to give up on our efforts because one of them failed. To condemn all your friends because one betrayed you, not to believe in love because someone was unfaithful or didn’t love you back. To throw away all your chances to be happy because you didn’t succeed on the first attempt. I hope that as you go on your way, you don’t give in nor give up!

Maktub. If I am really a part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love… the love that speaks the Language of the World.

It’s easier to build strong children then repair broken men.

This is a valley of ashes–a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause.

And overpowered by memoryBoth men gave way to grief. Priam wept freelyFor man – killing Hector, throbbing, crouchingBefore Achilles’ feet as Achilles wept himself,Now for his father, now for Patroclus once againAnd their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs …

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he’s getting it.