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“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex

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“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: attributed, intellectualism

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#3

“I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: humor

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#4

“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: drugs

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#5

“Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: birth, humor

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#6

“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: jim-morrison

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#7

“This is the strangest life I have ever known.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: doors, ever, have, i, is, jim, know, known, life, morrison, music, strange, strangest, the, this

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#8

“Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real?”
― Jim Morrison

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#9

“Well, I've been down so Goddamn long,
that it looks like up to me.”
― Jim Morrison

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#10

“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”

“It’s like gambling, somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where you’re going to end up the next day. It could work out good, or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.”
― Jim Morrison

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#11

“Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal”
― Jim Morrison

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#12

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

tags: love

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#13

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain

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#14

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#15

“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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#16

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: education, schooling, university

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#17

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

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#18

“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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#19

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

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#20

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#21

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#22

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#23

“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#24

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#25

“Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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#26

“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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#27

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

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#28

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

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#29

“It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: denial, relationship, sex

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#30

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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