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    Lord Byron
    “You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?”
    ― George Gordon Byron
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Post Office
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humour
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    Kurt Cobain
    “I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: inspirational
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    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you.”
    ― Fredrich Nietzche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “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
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “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
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    William Wordsworth
    “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
    ― William Wordsworth
    tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart
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    Charles Bukowski
    “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Find what you love and let it kill you.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: love
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Charles Bukowski
    “being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Women
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    Charles Bukowski
    “We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: bukowski, happiness, pain, unhappiness, unhappy
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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    Charles Bukowski
    “you boys can keep your virgins
    give me hot old women in high heels
    with asses that forgot to get old.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I often carry things to read
    so that I will not have to look at
    the people.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Lighting new cigarettes,
    pouring more
    drinks.

    It has been a beautiful
    fight.

    Still
    is.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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    Charles Bukowski
    “It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Pulp
    tags: life
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  • #27
    Charles Bukowski
    “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: bukowski, charles-bukowski, self-love
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