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8da37df	Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.	sadness love inspirational art redemption	Clive Barker
6d0d76f	I dreamed I spoke in another's language	poetry love inspirational	Clive Barker
27b7283	I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I dreamed I was a tiger's kin. I dreamed that Eden lived inside me, And when I breathed a garden came, I dreamed I knew all of Creation, I dreamed I knew the Creator's name. I dreamed--and this dream was the finest-- That all I dreamed was real and true, And we would live in joy forever, You in me, and me in you.	poetry love	Clive Barker
b78ded5	Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.	equality reading horror	Clive Barker
c33989c	We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.		Clive Barker
efbda4b	That which is imagined can never be lost.		Clive Barker
aafd4f9	No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.		Clive Barker
8efa8ef	Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman's face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you'd been before.		Clive Barker
d4196e6	It's only when you've lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase "It's a small world". It isn't. It's a vast, devouring world, especially if you're alone."		Clive Barker
04dcdd8	Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days.	poem fear fantasy scary horror	Clive Barker
26b2e38	Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.	travel	Clive Barker
c127d3c	To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.		Clive Barker
f09f7e6	Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It's only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes--if necessary--brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.	evil	Clive Barker
c226c57	Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.		Clive Barker
c4daf26	Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o!		Clive Barker
687a7b7	We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.		Clive Barker
1f1b916	A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.		Clive Barker
878b028	The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.	lulz similes	Clive Barker
d72b059	She had opened a door... and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have her revenge... Pain had made a sadist of her.		Clive Barker
ff0285c	Nothing happens carelessly. We're not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.		Clive Barker
a5029eb	I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn,		Clive Barker
d6e3782	Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.	thoughtful	Clive Barker
8e9c0c4	Witch, do this for me, Find me a moon made of longing. Then cut it sliver thin, and having cut it, hang it high above my beloved's house, so that she may look up tonight and see it, and seeing it, sigh for me	love days-of-magic-nights-of-war sad-love longing	Clive Barker i Days of Magic Nights of War i
abab2c5	you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.		Clive Barker
3c8cbac	We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.		Clive Barker
734f092	there's nothing in the world more fun than doing something you're good at.		Clive Barker
845c167	Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite.		Clive Barker
6af55f9	Non-fiction contains facts, fiction contains truth.		Clive Barker
cedc6c8	Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red.		Clive Barker
2c58c2c	I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.		Clive Barker
8e9a2a1	Believe nothing," Apolline advised. "This woman wouldn't know the truth if it fucked her."		Clive Barker
69b44c6	True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.		Clive Barker
f10700e	It was absurd and frustrating, to feel so much and know so little.		Clive Barker
4a4fef0	What the enemy believed of you was probably true, or else why were you enemies in the first place?		Clive Barker
20ffaba	Life and wisdom. What more could anybody ask?		Clive Barker
c8ff137	Godhood called, and he went, fleet-footed, to worship at his own altar.		Clive Barker
b6f10a0	What can be imagined----need never be lost.		Clive Barker
a2ffc4b	Suzanna didn't wait for confirmation. There was no use disbelieving the worst now.		Clive Barker
608a3b4	So he believes. The truth may be more...complex.		Clive Barker

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

sadness love inspirational art redemption

Clive Barker

6d0d76f

I dreamed I spoke in another's language

poetry love inspirational

Clive Barker

27b7283

I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I dreamed I was a tiger's kin. I dreamed that Eden lived inside me, And when I breathed a garden came, I dreamed I knew all of Creation, I dreamed I knew the Creator's name. I dreamed--and this dream was the finest-- That all I dreamed was real and true, And we would live in joy forever, You in me, and me in you.

poetry love

Clive Barker

b78ded5

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

equality reading horror

Clive Barker

c33989c

We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.

Clive Barker

efbda4b

That which is imagined can never be lost.

Clive Barker

aafd4f9

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.

Clive Barker

8efa8ef

Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman's face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you'd been before.

Clive Barker

d4196e6

It's only when you've lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase "It's a small world". It isn't. It's a vast, devouring world, especially if you're alone."

Clive Barker

04dcdd8

Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days.

poem fear fantasy scary horror

Clive Barker

26b2e38

Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.

travel

Clive Barker

c127d3c

To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.

Clive Barker

f09f7e6

Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It's only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes--if necessary--brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.

evil

Clive Barker

c226c57

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.

Clive Barker

c4daf26

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o!

Clive Barker

687a7b7

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

Clive Barker

1f1b916

A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.

Clive Barker

878b028

The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.

lulz similes

Clive Barker

d72b059

She had opened a door... and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have her revenge... Pain had made a sadist of her.

Clive Barker

ff0285c

Nothing happens carelessly. We're not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.

Clive Barker

a5029eb

I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn,

Clive Barker

d6e3782

Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.

thoughtful

Clive Barker

8e9c0c4

Witch, do this for me, Find me a moon made of longing. Then cut it sliver thin, and having cut it, hang it high above my beloved's house, so that she may look up tonight and see it, and seeing it, sigh for me

love days-of-magic-nights-of-war sad-love longing

Clive Barker  i Days of Magic Nights of War  i

abab2c5

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

Clive Barker

3c8cbac

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.