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I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.


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Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.



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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.




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Find what you love and let it kill you.

Find what you love and let it kill you.



If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.



Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.



Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.



You have to die a few times before you can really live.

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