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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
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Rafael Chaparro Madiedo
    “Sígueme contando sobre aquellos días cuando teníamos los corazones envueltos en papel regalo.”
    ― Rafael Chaparro Madiedo, Opio en las nubes
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    Yoshida Kenkō
    “To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.”
    ― Yoshida Kenko, Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
    tags: books, contemplation, reading
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    Charles Nodier
    “A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.”
    ― Charles Nodier
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    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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    C.G. Jung
    “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding
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    C.G. Jung
    “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: introspection, psychotherapist, secrets, self-awareness, visions
    2972 likes

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    Rafael Chaparro Madiedo
    “Tal vez el que construyó este barrio pensó que las esquinas
    eran parte de la circunferencia de la vida donde el amor es un punto
    central equidistante de la curva infinita del dolor”
    ― Rafael Chaparro Madiedo, Opio en las nubes
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    Rafael Chaparro Madiedo
    “Iba a llenar de labial rojo el cielo y las nubes y el aire y los ruidos.”
    ― Rafael Chaparro Madiedo, Opio en las nubes
    tags: opio-en-las-nubes
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    Arno Schmidt
    “A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!”
    ― Arno Schmidt, Scenes from the Life of a Faun: A Short Novel
    tags: inspirational
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    Martin Heidegger
    “Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”
    ― Martin Heidegger
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    Georges Simenon
    “Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.”
    ― Georges Simenon
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    Marcel Schwob
    “Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.”
    ― Marcel Schwob, The Book of Monelle
    tags: life-and-death, living-in-the-moment
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    Marcel Schwob
    “May your course not run from one end to the other; for such a course does not exist; but may every step you take mark a redressed projection.
    With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot.”
    ― Marcel Schwob, El libro de Monelle
    tags: symbolist
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    Pétrus Borel
    “To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak!

    And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one’s lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.”
    ― Petrus Borel, Champavert Le Lycanthrope
    tags: capitalism, poverty, rich, wealth
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    Jacques Lacan
    “What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

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    ― Jacques Lacan
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
    1746 likes

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    Edward Gibbon
    “We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
    ― Edward Gibbon
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    Edward Gibbon
    “The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
    ― Edward Gibbon
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    Epicurus
    “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: desire, gratitude, hope
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    Epicurus
    “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: atheism, religion
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    Epicurus
    “Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: awful, death, inspirational, peace, philosophy, serenity, wisdom
    577 likes

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    Matsuo Bashō
    “The journey itself is my home.”
    ― Matsuo Basho
    tags: travel
    414 likes

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    Matsuo Bashō
    “Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
    ― Matsuo Bashō
    tags: wisdom
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    Antony Beevor
    “History is never tidy.”
    ― Antony Beevor, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
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    Antony Beevor
    “To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make”
    ― Antony Beevor
    tags: writing
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    Frank Kermode
    “It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.”
    ― Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
    tags: fiction, reality, self
    18 likes



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