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"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage." - Rainer Maria Rilke

Src: Letters to a Young Poet, 1929

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"My sole gift or talent, I believe now, was that places could impress themselves upon me, and I could become a part of them with ease." - Jeff VanderMeer

Src: Annihilation, 2014

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"She did not own herself any longer. Even her flesh could be cut and stitched without her consent or knowledge." - Octavia Butler

Src: Dawn, 1987

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“And if thus small, then ladies may well wear a world of worlds, as pendents in each ear.” - Margaret Cavendish

Src: “Of Many Worlds in this World,” Poems and Fancies (1653); Academy of American Poets text.

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“Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.” - Charles Baudelaire

Src: Paris Spleen, 1869
Trans: Louise Varèse, New Directions, 1970

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"Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after." - Virginia Woolf

Src: Orlando: A Biography (1928)

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“Our neighbors plant bombs and machine guns, instead of flowers, in their garden soil.” - Forugh Farrokhzad

Src: “I Pity the Garden,” 1974

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“If I sift those words through myself, sentences will shiver out, like the strange, sad shriek the bow draws from a metal string.” - Han Kang

Src: The White Book (Korean original, 2016)

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“We touch here the hermetically sealed vases that furnish our conception of the universe.” - Maurice Maeterlinck

Src: The Life of the Bee (1901)

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“Their civilizations became so successful that they forgot they were in prison. They began to think they were free.” - Ben Okri

Src: The Freedom Artist (2019)

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“This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.” - Thomas Ligotti

Src: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (2010).

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“We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.” - Stanisław Lem

Source: Solaris (1961, Polish novel)

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“We are all caught in a net from which there is no escape; we are all chained to the wall of a cave.” - Stanisław Lem

Source: Solaris (1961), translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox

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“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.” - Angela Carter

Source: The Lady of the House of Love (1975, short story)

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“While the women were engaged in scientific research, the men of this country were busy increasing their military power.” - Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Source: “Sultana’s Dream” (1905).

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“Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a bridge and not an end.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Also sprach Zarathustra, 1883–1885).

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“The eerie tale fulfills our need to escape, at least occasionally, from a mechanistic world, ever more definable, ever more predictable, and, therefore, ever more unsatisfying and frustrating.” - Robert Aickman

Source: introduction to The Third Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories