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“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders in.”
― Evelyn Anthony

“I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”
― Anaïs Nin, Fire: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937

“The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor beds nor jobs nor laughs nor friends nor smiles nor money nor clean air to breathe...and yet the music goes on.”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

“Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.”
― Anais Nin

“People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

“The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.”
― Erica Jong

“Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.”
― Annie Dillard

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”
― Saki, The Unbearable Bassington

“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”
― Salvador Dali

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.”
― Bob Dylan

“You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe
But you're back were you belong”
― Bob Dylan

“Sex is an emotion in motion.”
― Mae West

“Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.”
― Jessamyn West

“I write emotional algebra.”
― Anais Nin

“Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?”
― George Carlin

“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
― George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty

“How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.”
― Keri Hulme

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?”
― Gerard De Nerval

“Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees! ”
― Anne Raver

“Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away.”
― Gregory Maguire

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo