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“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
― George Carlin

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Where's your will to be weird?”
― Jim Morrison

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you were different from anybody in town, you had to get out. That's why everybody was so much alike. The way they talked, what they did, what they liked, what they hated. If somebody got to hate something and he was the right person, everybody had to hate it too, or people began to hate the ones who didn't hate it. They used to tell us in school to think for yourself, but you couldn't do that in the town. You had to think what your father thought all his life, and that was what everybody thought.”
― John Kennedy Toole, The Neon Bible

“I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Jupiter, you are angry, therefore you are wrong.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

“لا تحدق طويلاً في الهاوية حتى لا تلتفت اليك”
― نيتشه

“The Laughing Heart

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.”
― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories

“No one is alone in self isolation because the entire world is there with you.”
― Ken Poirot

“I have been wondering, mostly, if love and sanity are the same thing. When I say I am in love I am also saying the world makes sense to me right now”
― Neil Hilborn, Our Numbered Days

“Liceu - cimitir al tinereții mele .”
― George Bacovia