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“Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.”
― Henry Miller

“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
― Henry Miller

“What's a fuck when what I want is love?”
― Henry Miller

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
― Jean Paul Sartre

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything”
― Henry Miller, Sexus

“To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.”
― Henry Miller

“Words are loneliness.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“I have found God, but he is insufficient.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Everything hinges on how you look at things”
― Henry Miller

“Everyman has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.”
― Henry Miller

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
― Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.”
― Henry Miller

“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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

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

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“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

“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Be good and you will be lonesome.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

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

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire