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<choice>I, a stranger, and afraid, in a world I never made.|Alfred E. Housman</choice>
<option>They banished him from the Kingdom at the Center of the Earth. It seemed a harsh punishment at first. But then he saw the sky.|A Small Fiction</option>
<choice>Not all who wander are lost.|John R.R. Tolkein</choice>
<option>Mankind always yearned for the stars. We chased them, and found a new world. A home. But it wasn't long before we looked to the sky again.|A Small Fiction</option>
<choice>I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.|Sarah Williams</choice>
<option>She didn't fall to despair. She prepared, instead, for adventure. She knew what heroes knew. To save the world, it must first be in danger.|A Small Fiction</option>
<choice>To venture in the fair unknown<br>I must enter as I leave:<br>A traveler, alone.|Anonymous</choice>
<option>He was lost in the Old Wood, a place that had once birthed myths and nightmares. And, as he would soon find out, where they had never died.|A Small Fiction</option>
<choice>...Come, my friends,<br>'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.|Alfred, Lord Tennyson</choice>
<option>The old mapmaker wet his quill. "Here be dragons," He labeled the wild beyond man's kingdom. "Here be monsters," he labeled the rest.|A Small Fiction</option>
<choice>Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.|Apollo 11 Lunar Plaque</choice>
<option>Humanity watched the stars. They were afraid something was out there, watching us. And also that nothing was.|A Small Fiction</option>
<choice>Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,<br>And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?|Christopher Marlowe</choice>
<option>We lit the constellations with lines of fire drawn from the stars. It burned out the stars, eventually. But for a time it was beautiful.|A Small Fiction</option>
<choice>All kinds of people want to take a trip to the End of the World, but what do they hope to gain?|Writers of the Future</choice>
<option>It took years to find a new Earth; centuries to reach it. At last, we stood under blue sky. A yellow sun. And wished it wasn't so familiar.|A Small Fiction</option>
<choice>Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.|George Orwell</choice>
<option>These woods are lovely, dark and deep,<br/>But I have promises to keep,<br/>And miles to go before I sleep,<br/>And miles to go before I sleep.|Robert Frost</option>
<choice>And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home.|Larry Ferguson</choice>
<option>Humanity was gone, they came for what we left behind. Our ruins didn't interest them. Instead they shifted through the echoes of our minds.|A Small Fiction</option>
<choice>A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.|Mahatma Gandhi</choice>
<option>The Earth and the Stars had a wager to figure the pull with more sway: the gravity pulling men downward, or the longing that pulled them away.|A Small Fiction</option>
<choice>Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.|Christopher Columbus</choice>
<option>I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.|Douglas Adams</option>
<choice>A ship is safe in a harbour. But then that's not what ships are for.</choice>
<option>Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.|Henry Adams</option>
<choice>We understand so much. But the sky behind those lights, mostly void, partially stars, that sky reminds us that we don't understand even more.|Welcome to Night Vale</choice>
<option>This is the world as it is. This is where you start.|Saul D. Alinsky</option>
<choice>Day and night I always dream with open eyes.|José Martí</choice>
<option>There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.|Kevin J. Anderson</option>
<choice>All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.|Thomas E. Lawrence CB DSO</choice>
<option>A ship is safe in a harbour. But then that's not what ships are for.</option>
<choice>I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands<br/>and wrote my will across the sky in stars.|Thomas E. Lawrence, CB DSO</choice>
<option>To venture in the fair unknown<br>I must enter as I leave:<br>A traveler, alone.</option>
<choice>For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.|Elie Wiesel</choice>
<option>Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.|Apollo 11 Lunar Plaque</option>
<choice>There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.|Napoleon Bonaparte</choice>
<option>What are men to rocks and mountains?|Jane Austen</option>
<choice>We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.|Thomas S. Eliot</choice>
<option>There is a wilderness we walk alone/<br>However well-companioned|Stephen V. Benét</option>
<choice>A nomad I will remain for life in love with distant uncharted places.|Isabelle Eberhardt</choice>
<option>Message of the blowing wind<br/>Erasing memories<br/>Stars are the witnesses of our existence<br/><br/>Change is what the world awaits<br/>Could that be peace or war?<br/>The answer no one knows<br/>Trusting the break of dawn|Beyond the Bounds</option>
<choice>You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.|Aldous Huxley</choice>
<option>Travelling beyond the bounds<br/>We have to take that step<br/>What are we waiting for? It's now or never<br/><br/>Fear to see "The World to Be"<br/>Is why we hesitate<br/>Repeat the same mistake<br/>Hoping to break new ground|Beyond the Bounds</option>
<choice>Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.|Ralph W. Emerson</choice>
<option><small>We are travelers, constantly moving forward, and looking back. Alone and as one, We have no choice but to try for our insatiable curiosity, for our fear in what should happen if we don't. You are the explorer now. We will say goodbye, and you will look back one last time, and know that wherever you go, we will be with you. This is Commander Shepard, signing off.</small>|Bioware</option>
<choice>The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me/<br>Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.|Robinson Jeffers</choice>
<option>Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.|Nellie Bly</option>
<choice>There is a wilderness we walk alone/<br>However well-companioned|Stephen V. Benét</choice>
<option>There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.|Napoleon Bonaparte</option>
<choice>You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.|William Faulkner</choice>
<option>We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.|David R. Brower</option>
<choice>One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.|José Rizal</choice>
<option>Nothing lives long<br/>Only the earth and mountains|Dee Brown</option>
<choice>It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.|Joseph Conrad</choice>
<option>Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...|Eileen Chang</option>
<choice>There is a tower in the Emperor's palace called the Tower of Heroes: a black tower which rises high into the sky like a spike. At the summit of that tower hangs the Bell of Lost Souls. It is an ancient thing, massive as a building and adorned with dark runes, its peal like the scream of an anguished god. It is tolled but once when a great hero of the Imperium dies. Its wailing moan of grief lasts long and reaches the ears of millions, and its tones penetrate the unifying ether of humanity turning the thought of countless billions towards mankind's loss.|Warhammer 40,000</choice>
<option>Very few of us are what we seem.|Agatha Christie</option>
<choice>Only in Death does Duty end.|Warhammer 40,000</choice>
<option>Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.|Arthur C. Clarke</option>
<choice>One unbreakable shield against the coming darkness, One last blade forged in defiance of fate, Let them be my legacy to the galaxy I conquered, And my final gift to the species I failed.|Warhammer 40,000</choice>
<option>I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.|Arthur C. Clarke</option>
<choice>Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.|Magic: The Gathering</choice>
<option>Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.|Arthur C. Clarke</option>
<choice>Familiarity, the first myth of reality: What you know the best, you observe the least.<br/>Devotion, the second myth of reality: The faithful are most hurt by the objects of their faith.<br/>Conviction, the third myth of reality: Only those who seek the truth can be deceived.<br/>Fellowship, the fourth myth of reality: As the tides of war shift, so do loyalties.<br/>Trust, the fifth myth of reality: Every truth holds the seed of betrayal.|Magic: The Gathering</choice>
<option>Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.|Christopher Columbus</option>
<choice><small>What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow<br/>Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,<br/>You cannot say, or guess, for you know only<br/>A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,<br/>And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,<br/>And the dry stone no sound of water. Only<br/>There is shadow under this red rock,<br/>(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),<br/>And I will show you something different from either<br/>Your shadow at morning striding behind you<br/>Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;<br/>I will show you fear in a handful of dust.</small>|Thomas S. Elliot</choice>
<option>It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.|Joseph Conrad</option>
<choice>The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.|Jack London</choice>
<option>...and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.|Glen Cook</option>
<choice>To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.|Miyamoto Musashi</choice>
<option>One day they woke me up<br/>So I could live forever...|Jonathan Coulton</option>
<choice>Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.|Robert A. Heinlein</choice>
<option>When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.|Leonardo Da Vinci</option>
<choice>There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.|Robert A. Heinlein</choice>
<option>She had the unmistakable look of a spacefarer, covered in tattoos of our night sky so aliens could send her home if death finally found her.|QuietPineTrees/T.R. Darling</option>
<choice>Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.|Clifford D. Simak</choice>
<option>Humans were drawn to that region of space. There wasn't enough Earth left to know it had been our home. The constellations just felt right.|QuietPineTrees/T.R. Darling</option>
<choice>Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.|Arthur C. Clarke</choice>
<option>Stone and sea are deep in life. Two unalterable symbols of the world. Permanence at rest. And permanence in motion. Participants in the power that remains.|Stephen R. Donaldson</option>
<choice>I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.|Arthur C. Clarke</choice>
<option>Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.|Peter F. Drucker</option>
<choice>Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.|Arthur C. Clarke</choice>
<option>A nomad I will remain for life in love with distant uncharted places.|Isabelle Eberhardt</option>
<choice>There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.|Kevin J. Anderson</choice>
<option>We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.|Thomas S. Eliot</option>
<choice>Your world can end in the blink of an eye. One event, one unexpected twist of fate... and suddenly the world as you knew... is gone. Forever. All that you held dear, all that you held close... is washed away in a sea of distant memory. Life... is cruel. Of this I have no doubt. But life continues on... with, or without you. One can only hope that one leaves behind a lasting legacy. But so often, the legacies we leave behind... are not the ones we intended.|Gears of War 2</choice>
<option><small>What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow<br/>Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,<br/>You cannot say, or guess, for you know only<br/>A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,<br/>And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,<br/>And the dry stone no sound of water. Only<br/>There is shadow under this red rock,<br/>(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),<br/>And I will show you something different from either<br/>Your shadow at morning striding behind you<br/>Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;<br/>I will show you fear in a handful of dust.</small>|Thomas S. Elliot</option>
<choice>I have seen the universe yawning<br>Where the black planets roll without aim -<br>Where they roll in their horror unheeded,<br>Without knowledge or luster or name.|Howard P. Lovecraft</choice>
<option>Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.|Ralph W. Emerson</option>
<choice>They say foul beings of Old Times still lurk In dark forgotten corners of the world, And Gates still gape to loose, on certain nights, Shapes pent in Hell.|Howard P. Lovecraft</choice>
<option>Every weakness contains within itself a strength.|Shūsaku Endō</option>
<choice>Whilst the greater number of our dreams are perhaps no more than faint and fantastic reflections of our waking experiences there are still a certain remainder whose immundane and ethereal character permits of no ordinary interpretation, and whose vaguely exciting and disquieting effect suggests possible minute glimpses into a sphere of mental existence no less important than physical life, yet separated from that life by an all but impassable barrier. Man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.|Howard P. Lovecraft</choice>
<option>I'm often asked, "Why would you leave Shangri-La?" But the truth is, I never left. To believe in something beyond yourself - That is true paradise. Shangri-La is within me, and within you.|Far Cry 4</option>
<choice>The vistas I relish most are those in which the sunset plays a transfiguring & glorifying part.|Howard P. Lovecraft</choice>
<option>Now all I want is to find a way home, to warn Earth. Look upward, and share... the wonders I have seen.|Farscape</option>
<choice>For there are objects in the great Abyss and the seeker of dreams must take care not to stir up or meet the wrong ones.|Howard P. Lovecraft</choice>
<option>If I make it back, (will they follow)? If I open a door, (are you ready)? Earth is unprepared (helpless) for the nightmares I've seen. Or should I stay, protect my home, not show them you exist. But then you'll never know...the wonders I've seen.|Farscape</option>
<choice>We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.|Howard P. Lovecraft</choice>
<option>I see! It is all so clear to me now; man is but a creature that constantly aims for the open sky! However, it seems that even for a mere imitation of man, it is still possible to achieve that fantasy!|Fate/Apocrypha</option>
<choice>I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars.... I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...|Howard P. Lovecraft</choice>
<option>Heed my words: my will creates your body, and your sword creates my destiny.|Fate/Zero</option>
<choice>The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.|Howard P. Lovecraft</choice>
<option>I hereby swear that I shall be all the good in the world, and that I shall defeat all evil in the world.|Fate/Zero</option>
<choice>I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.|Howard P. Lovecraft</choice>
<option>Glory lies just beyond the horizon!|Fate/Zero</option>
<choice>The Guard dies, but it does not surrender!|Pierre Cambronne or Claude-Étienne Michel</choice>
<option>Glory lies just beyond the horizon; challenge it because it is unattainable.|Fate/Zero</option>
<choice>The night is dark and full of terrors... but the fire burns them all away.|Game of Thrones</choice>
<option>Raise a wall against the wind; Close the gates of four directions; Come forth from the crown and follow the forked road to the Kingdom.|Fate/Zero</option>
<choice>Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.|Frank Herbert</choice>
<option>You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.|William Faulkner</option>
<choice>They sicken of the calm who know the storm.|Dorothy Parker</choice>
<option>And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home.|Larry Ferguson</option>
<choice>Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last!<br/>Loitering slow, the Future creepeth —<br/>Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth —<br/>And motionless forever stands the Past.|Friedrich Schiller</choice>
<option>One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.|Gustave Flaubert</option>
<choice>When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.|Tuli Kupferberg</choice>
<option>It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.|Vince Flynn</option>
<choice>Maybe there is a beast... maybe it's only us.|William Golding</choice>
<option>The Sky is dark, the wind is cold, the night is young before it's old and grey. We will know the thrill of it all.|Bryan Freey</option>
<choice>We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.|John W. Powell</choice>
<option><small>Some say the world will end in fire,<br/>Some say in ice.<br/>From what I’ve tasted of desire<br/>I hold with those who favor fire.<br/>But if it had to perish twice,<br/>I think I know enough of hate<br/>To say that for destruction ice<br/>Is also great<br/>And would suffice.</small>|Robert Frost</option>
<choice>I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.|John Green</choice>
<Option>Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving up something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.|Fullmetal Alchemist</option>
<choice>Some say the world will end in fire,<br/>Some say in ice.<br/>From what I’ve tasted of desire<br/>I hold with those who favor fire.<br/>But if it had to perish twice,<br/>I think I know enough of hate<br/>To say that for destruction ice<br/>Is also great<br/>And would suffice.|Robert Frost</choice>
<option>The night is dark and full of terrors... but the fire burns them all away.|Game of Thrones</option>
<choice>Message of the blowing wind<br/>Erasing memories<br/>Stars are the witnesses of our existence<br/><br/>Change is what the world awaits<br/>Could that be peace or war?<br/>The answer no one knows<br/>Trusting the break of dawn|Beyond the Bounds</choice>
<option>A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.|Mahatma Gandhi</option>
<choice>Travelling beyond the bounds<br/>We have to take that step<br/>What are we waiting for? It's now or never<br/><br/>Fear to see "The World to Be"<br/>Is why we hesitate<br/>Repeat the same mistake<br/>Hoping to break new ground|Beyond the Bounds</choice>
<option>I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.|Allen Ginsberg</option>
<choice>We are travelers, constantly moving forward, and looking back. Alone and as one, We have no choice but to try for our insatiable curiosity, for our fear in what should happen if we don't. You are the explorer now. We will say goodbye, and you will look back one last time, and know that wherever you go, we will be with you. This is Commander Shepard, signing off.|Bioware</choice>
<option><small>Your world can end in the blink of an eye. One event, one unexpected twist of fate... and suddenly the world as you knew... is gone. Forever. All that you held dear, all that you held close... is washed away in a sea of distant memory. Life... is cruel. Of this I have no doubt. But life continues on... with, or without you. One can only hope that one leaves behind a lasting legacy. But so often, the legacies we leave behind... are not the ones we intended.</small>|Gears of War 2</option>
<choice>I'm often asked, "Why would you leave Shangri-La?" But the truth is, I never left. To believe in something beyond yourself - That is true paradise. Shangri-La is within me, and within you.|Far Cry 4</choice>
<option>Maybe there is a beast... maybe it's only us.|William Golding</option>
<choice>Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. |Voltaire</choice>
<option>I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.|John Green</option>
<choice>Very few of us are what we seem.|Agatha Christie</choice>
<option>Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.|H. Rider Haggard</option>
<choice>Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.|Jules Verne</choice>
<option>Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.|Robert A. Heinlein</option>
<choice>Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.|Friedrich Nietzsche</choice>
<option>There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.|Robert A. Heinlein</option>
<choice>We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.|David R. Brower</choice>
<option><small>There are things we don't do. From this moment on, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us all live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.</small>|John G. Hemry</option>
<choice>One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.|Gustave Flaubert</choice>
<option>Beware that which thinks but does not live.|John G. Hemry</option>
<choice>The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.|Thomas Paine</choice>
<option>Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.|John G Hemry</option>
<choice>Heed my words: my will creates your body, and your sword creates my destiny.|Fate/Zero</choice>
<option>Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.|Frank Herbert</option>
<choice>I hereby swear that I shall be all the good in the world, and that I shall defeat all evil in the world.|Fate/Zero</choice>
<option>I, a stranger, and afraid, in a world I never made.|Alfred E. Housman</option>
<choice>Glory lies just beyond the horizon!|Fate/Zero</choice>
<option>You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.|Aldous Huxley</option>
<choice>Raise a wall against the wind; Close the gates of four directions; Come forth from the crown and follow the forked road to the Kingdom.|Fate/Zero</choice>
<option>The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me/<br>Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.|Robinson Jeffers</option>
<choice>Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...|Eileen Chang</choice>
<option>I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....|Erica Jong</option>
<choice>...and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.|Glen Cook</choice>
<option>As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.|Yasunari Kawabata</option>
<choice>Now all I want is to find a way home, to warn Earth. Look upward, and share... the wonders I have seen.|Farscape</choice>
<option>When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.|Tuli Kupferberg</option>
<choice>If I make it back, (will they follow)? If I open a door, (are you ready)? Earth is unprepared (helpless) for the nightmares I've seen. Or should I stay, protect my home, not show them you exist. But then you'll never know … the wonders I've seen.|Farscape</choice>
<option>The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.|Neil LaBute</option>
<choice>Nothing lives long<br/>Only the earth and mountains|Dee Brown</choice>
<option>On that moment hung eternity. Time stood still. Space contracted to a pinpoint. It was as though the earth had opened and the skies split. One felt as though he had been privileged to witness the Birth of the World...|William Laurence</option>
<choice>The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.|Kenzaburō Ōe</choice>
<option><small>All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.</small>|Thomas E. Lawrence CB DSO</option>
<choice>The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.|Frank Miller</choice>
<option>I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands<br/>and wrote my will across the sky in stars.|Thomas E. Lawrence, CB DSO</option>
<choice>Your world needs a great defender<br/>Your world's in the way of harm|Casey Williams</choice>
<option>You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?|Legend of Zelda</option>
<choice>Beware that the light is fading;<br/>Beware if the dark returns<br/>This world's unforgiving, even brilliant lights will cease to burn|Casey Williams</choice>
<option>There are some truths that are never taught. One of this is this: When you hide you find what's been hidden.|Pascalle Lepas</option>
<choice>You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?|Legend of Zelda</choice>
<option>The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.|Jack London</option>
aSh<choice>There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.|William Shakespeare</choice>
<option>I have seen the universe yawning<br>Where the black planets roll without aim -<br>Where they roll in their horror unheeded,<br>Without knowledge or luster or name.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<choice>I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.|Allen Ginsberg</choice>
<option>They say foul beings of Old Times still lurk In dark forgotten corners of the world, And Gates still gape to loose, on certain nights, Shapes pent in Hell.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<choice>Every weakness contains within itself a strength.|Shūsaku Endō</choice>
<option><small>Whilst the greater number of our dreams are perhaps no more than faint and fantastic reflections of our waking experiences there are still a certain remainder whose immundane and ethereal character permits of no ordinary interpretation, and whose vaguely exciting and disquieting effect suggests possible minute glimpses into a sphere of mental existence no less important than physical life, yet separated from that life by an all but impassable barrier. Man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.</small>|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<choice>I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....|Erica Jong</choice>
<option>The vistas I relish most are those in which the sunset plays a transfiguring & glorifying part.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<choice>This kingdom shall fall, and from the ashes shall arise a new order that will shake the very foundations of the world.|Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos</choice>
<option>For there are objects in the great Abyss and the seeker of dreams must take care not to stir up or meet the wrong ones.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<choice>What are men to rocks and mountains?|Jane Austen</choice>
<option>We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<choice>It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.|Vince Flynn</choice>
<option>I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars.... I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<choice>For he did not know, that beyond the lake he called home,<br/>There lied a deeper, and darker ocean green.<br/>Where waves are both wilder and more serene.<br/>To its ports I've been,<br/>To its ports I've been.|Alan Wake</choice>
<option>The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<choice>There are things we don't do. From this moment on, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us all live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.|John G. Hemry</choice>
<option>I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<choice>You should not honor men more than truth.|Plato</choice>
<option>Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.|Magic: The Gathering</option>
<choice>There are some truths that are never taught. One of this is this: When you hide you find what's been hidden.|Pascalle Lepas, Wilde Life</choice>
<option><small>Familiarity, the first myth of reality: What you know the best, you observe the least.<br/>Devotion, the second myth of reality: The faithful are most hurt by the objects of their faith.<br/>Conviction, the third myth of reality: Only those who seek the truth can be deceived.<br/>Fellowship, the fourth myth of reality: As the tides of war shift, so do loyalties.<br/>Trust, the fifth myth of reality: Every truth holds the seed of betrayal.</small>|Magic: The Gathering</option>
<choice>You fool, you wanderer<br/>You challenged the gods and lost|Nightwish</choice>
<option>Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.|Gregory Maguire</option>
<choice>Stone and sea are deep in life. Two unalterable symbols of the world. Permanence at rest. And permanence in motion. Participants in the power that remains.|Stephen R. Donaldson</choice>
<option>Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,<br>And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?|Christopher Marlowe</option>
<choice>Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.|H. Rider Haggard</choice>
<option>Day and night I always dream with open eyes.|José Martí</option>
<choice>Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.|Gregory Maguire</choice>
<option>The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.|Frank Miller</option>
<choice>We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.|Douglas Preston</choice>
<option>To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.|Miyamoto Musashi</option>
<choice>It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.|Eiji Yoshikawa</choice>
<option>Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.|Friedrich Nietzsche</option>
<choice>Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.|Luigi Pirandello</choice>
<option>You fool, you wanderer<br/>You challenged the gods and lost|Nightwish</option>
<choice>On that moment hung eternity. Time stood still. Space contracted to a pinpoint. It was as though the earth had opened and the skies split. One felt as though he had been privileged to witness the Birth of the World...|William Laurence</choice>
<option>The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.|Kenzaburō Ōe</option>
<choice>Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars.|J. Michael Straczynski</choice>
<option>Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.|George Orwell</option>
<choice>One day they woke me up<br/>So I could live forever...|Jonathan Coulton</choice>
<option>The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.|Thomas Paine</option>
<choice>They banished him from the Kingdom at the Center of the Earth. It seemed a harsh punishment at first. But then he saw the sky.|A Small Fiction</choice>
<option>They sicken of the calm who know the storm.|Dorothy Parker</option>
<choice>Mankind always yearned for the stars. We chased them, and found a new world. A home. But it wasn't long before we looked to the sky again.|A Small Fiction</choice>
<option>Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.|Luigi Pirandello</option>
<choice>She didn't fall to despair. She prepared, instead, for adventure. She knew what heroes knew. To save the world, it must first be in danger.|A Small Fiction</choice>
<option>You should not honor men more than truth.|Plato</option>
<choice>He was lost in the Old Wood, a place that had once birthed myths and nightmares. And, as he would soon find out, where they had never died.|A Small Fiction</choice>
<option>We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.|John W. Powell</option>
<choice>The old mapmaker wet his quill. "Here be dragons," He labeled the wild beyond man's kingdom. "Here be monsters," he labeled the rest.|A Small Fiction</choice>
<option>We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.|Douglas Preston</option>
<choice>Humanity watched the stars. They were afraid something was out there, watching us. And also that nothing was.|A Small Fiction</choice>
<option>One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.|José Rizal</option>
 
<option>Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last!<br/>Loitering slow, the Future creepeth —<br/>Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth —<br/>And motionless forever stands the Past.|Friedrich Schiller</option>
<option>There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.|William Shakespeare</option>
<option>Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.|Clifford D. Simak</option>
<option><small>Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars.</small>|J. Michael Straczynski</option>
<option>I'm not lost. I've simply wandered further into the darkness than you care to brave.|Fiona Summerville</option>
<option>...Come, my friends,<br>'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.|Alfred, Lord Tennyson</option>
<option>Not all who wander are lost.|John R.R. Tolkein</option>
<option>That is the purpose of stories, that no matter where we walk in the world, we walk twice: once in the warm sunshine, and once in the silvery light of every tale we have ever heard, seeing each thing as it is, and also as it was.|Catherynne M. Valente</option>
<option>Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.|Jules Verne</option>
<option>Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. |Voltaire</option>
<option>For he did not know, that beyond the lake he called home,<br/>There lied a deeper, and darker ocean green.<br/>Where waves are both wilder and more serene.<br/>To its ports I've been,<br/>To its ports I've been.|Alan Wake</option>
<option>This kingdom shall fall, and from the ashes shall arise a new order that will shake the very foundations of the world.|Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos</option>
<option><small>There is a tower in the Emperor's palace called the Tower of Heroes: a black tower which rises high into the sky like a spike. At the summit of that tower hangs the Bell of Lost Souls. It is an ancient thing, massive as a building and adorned with dark runes, its peal like the scream of an anguished god. It is tolled but once when a great hero of the Imperium dies. Its wailing moan of grief lasts long and reaches the ears of millions, and its tones penetrate the unifying ether of humanity turning the thought of countless billions towards mankind's loss.</small>|Warhammer 40,000</option>
<option>Only in Death does Duty end.|Warhammer 40,000</option>
<option>One unbreakable shield against the coming darkness, One last blade forged in defiance of fate, Let them be my legacy to the galaxy I conquered, And my final gift to the species I failed.|Warhammer 40,000</option>
<option>We understand so much. But the sky behind those lights, mostly void, partially stars, that sky reminds us that we don't understand even more.|Welcome to Night Vale</option>
<option>For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.|Elie Wiesel</option>
<option>Your world needs a great defender<br/>Your world's in the way of harm|Casey Williams</option>
<option>Beware that the light is fading;<br/>Beware if the dark returns<br/>This world's unforgiving, even brilliant lights will cease to burn|Casey Williams</option>
<option>I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.|Sarah Williams</option>
<option>All kinds of people want to take a trip to the End of the World, but what do they hope to gain?|Writers of the Future</option>
<option>It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.|Eiji Yoshikawa</option>
<option>The Guard dies, but it does not surrender!|Pierre Cambronne or Claude-Étienne Michel</option>
<option>Do not mock those afraid of the dark. Teach them that the shadows do not bite; they hug and they comfort when nothing else will. Teach them to be as fearless as you are.|thebratfangs</option>
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I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
  — Howard P. Lovecraft