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If you dare nothing,
then when the day is over,
nothing is all you will have gained.


Neil Gaiman

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cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interfere...
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Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God n...
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by choosing different thoughts. Howe...
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rejoice in the way things are.
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to the vulnerable black, stripped
to the soul with human blindnes...
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I will be your shade,
though the sun burns my leaves.

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But from the soft touch of the eyelashes of
a w...
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To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has...
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JAMIE MCGUIRE I am frightened of nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Nothing."
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'Unknowable wonderfulness?'

'Nonsense....
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When my body no longer exists
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First you will smile, and then you will cry -...
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This is my story; I promise to leave n...
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at the end of the day all this...
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I will not lose hope.
For you see, nothing is ever pers...
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Hearts are burning,
Heads are rolling,
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Be whole in ev...
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There was nothing but uncompromising w...
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Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
No...
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VIOLA SHIPMAN For all these stars,
nothing is new.
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and miracles, t...
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If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.
If you meet your father, kill yo...
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If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.
If you meet your father, kill yo...
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when all around you t...
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Soon,
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dedicate...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In my world, people are always plotting. You
have no idea of all the crimes peopl...
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You have been given this day to use as you will.
You can w...
ANON. And then there is that day when all around,
all around you hear the dropping of the apples, one...
RAY BRADBURY When you are doing all that you know to do

yet all hell is breaking out around you,
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Nothing but a heartache
Hits you when it's too late
Hits you when you'r...
BONNIE TYLER You will have memories
Because of what we did back then
When we were new at this,
SAPPHO Nothing can resist a person who is
nonresistant... When you overcome
negative with posit...
VAL UCHENDU When you start dreaming- what’s there to boast?
Life may treat you like a living ghost
B...
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"What do you mean?"
"When you lie to everyone about every...
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For time is but a space that is captured
Live in fear or peac...
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But you may feel nothing at all.
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She swiveled toward him, ...
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To Those Who Dare,
To Those Who Do,
To Those Who Succeed.

S...
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I...
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...
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the love misplaced,
has inside it
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Noth...
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I lack desire because I think I possess,
I think I posses...
RENé DAUMAL Nothing but blackness above
And nothing that moves but the cars...
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Your co-workers ask
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RICHARD SIKEN I HOLD

If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.

COCO J. GINGER . . . what I like doing best is Nothing."
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AKASH LAKHOTIA Tell me about Raffe."
Nothing.
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If you think you dare not, you don't;
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WALTER D. WINTLE If today is not your day,
then be happy
for this day shall never return.
And if to...
KAMAND KOJOURI Never, oh! never, nothing will die;
The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleet...
ALFRED TENNYSON If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don't,
If you like to ...
WALTER D. WINTLE If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
PABLO NERUDA He is deaf, and keen to accept,
any economical operation,
that will correct his situation....
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER Remember The Dream

You have a choice
Your heart will know
You gotta look back s...
JAMES INGRAM THE UNFORGIVEN


Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people:
...
SUZY KASSEM Some people are like an open grave:
You give it the thing you love most
And then get nothi...
ABU AL-ALA AL-MA'ARRI You may compare yourself to others, and feel insecure about your own worthiness.

Don’t ...
JENNIFER SODINI When you get lost in a really strange place,
nothing is more comforting than found your
...
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NEIL GAIMAN You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And...
NEIL GAIMAN There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized...
NEIL GAIMAN There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worl...
NEIL GAIMAN We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright ...
NEIL GAIMAN October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a boo...
NEIL GAIMAN This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting o...
NEIL GAIMAN I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrif...
NEIL GAIMAN We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bea...
NEIL GAIMAN The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They a...
NEIL GAIMAN We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMAN Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves i...
NEIL GAIMAN A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because ...
NEIL GAIMAN Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
NEIL GAIMAN I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ...
NEIL GAIMAN Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...
NEIL GAIMAN Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay t...
NEIL GAIMAN I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa...
NEIL GAIMAN Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point.
NEIL GAIMAN Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...
NEIL GAIMAN Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t...
NEIL GAIMAN Books were safer than other people anyway.
NEIL GAIMAN I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe...
NEIL GAIMAN As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
NEIL GAIMAN Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.
NEIL GAIMAN I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy...
NEIL GAIMAN I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, ...
NEIL GAIMAN One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...
NEIL GAIMAN The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
NEIL GAIMAN I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ...
NEIL GAIMAN You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic...
NEIL GAIMAN Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
NEIL GAIMAN So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a...
NEIL GAIMAN When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
NEIL GAIMAN Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ...
NEIL GAIMAN As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th...
NEIL GAIMAN I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi...
NEIL GAIMAN Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
NEIL GAIMAN Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l...
NEIL GAIMAN To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu...
NEIL GAIMAN Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe...
NEIL GAIMAN I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ...
NEIL GAIMAN What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven?
NEIL GAIMAN Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ...
NEIL GAIMAN The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge...
NEIL GAIMAN Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w...
NEIL GAIMAN