"Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning."

-- Paulo Coelho

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“Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.”

Source : Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.55, The Overlook Press
“It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.”
“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”

Source : Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc
“I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.--Accordingly I set off thus:”
“I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.”
“Only my dogs will not betray me.”
“When people are like each other they tend to like each other.”
“We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.”

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