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"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

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"Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it."
— Mark Twain

tags: writing
34 people liked it

"L'amour est aveugle; l'amitié ferme les yeux. Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
— anon.

tags: friendship, love
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"All things in moderation, including moderation."
— Mark Twain

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"I sit here
drunk now.
I am
a series of
small victories
and large defeats
and I am as
amazed
as any other
that
I have gotten
from there to
here
without committing murder
or being
murdered;
without
having ended up in the
madhouse.

as I drink alone
again tonight
my soul despite all the past
agony
thanks all the gods
who were not
there
for me
then."
— Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems)

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"I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
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"And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her."
— Charles Bukowski (Women: A Novel)

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"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."
— Mark Twain

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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!'"
— Hunter S. Thompson

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"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry."
— Mark Twain

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"Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Proud Highway:, The: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman)

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"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
— Mark Twain

tags: love
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"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

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"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
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"Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough."
— Mark Twain

tags: whiskey
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"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
— E.B. White (Letters of E. B. White)

tags: nature
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"We are all stupid, just on different subjects"
— Mark Twain

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"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life
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"Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die."
— Mark Twain

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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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"She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection."
— Mark Twain

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"To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
— Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, joy
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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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"If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away."
— Mark Twain

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"If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear. "
— Mark Twain

tags: wisdom
15 people liked it

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
— Philip K. Dick

tags: insanity, madness, pkd, reality
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"A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime."
— Mark Twain

tags: cat, crimes
4 people liked it

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos
478 people liked it

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. "
— Mark Twain

tags: flower, forgiveness
7 people liked it

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: heaven, religion
427 people liked it

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
446 people liked it

"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friends, friendship, observation, writers, writing
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: perspective, truth
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"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: insanity, society
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"He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: faith
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"We have art in order not to die of the truth. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art
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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: enemies, friends, friendship, hatred, intelligence, knowledge, love, wisdom
138 people liked it

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational
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"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
— Hunter S. Thompson

108 people liked it

"The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: anti-christian, christianity, love, sensuality, spirituality
19 people liked it

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson

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"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable"
— Hunter S. Thompson

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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

45 people liked it

"Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits -- a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream)

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"There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame & Degradation in the '80's)

tags: gonzo
55 people liked it

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