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#1

“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#2

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

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#3

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

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#4

“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski

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#5

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

tags: philosophy

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#6

“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

tags: drinking

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#7

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: gatsby, paradise

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#8

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, philosophy

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#9

“The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

tags: joy, pleasure

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#10

“Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads an endless book by the light of an eternal candle.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

tags: eternity, paradise, reading

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#11

“Existence is illusory and it is eternal.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: absurdism, existentialism

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#12

“He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.”
― Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear

tags: existentialism

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#13

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: dream, loneliness

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#14

“When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

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#15

“I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats and
rain, rain and cats, very nice, good
night.”
― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories

tags: cats, night, rain, storm

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#16

“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

tags: alone, appearance, beautiful, beauty, bukowski, classic, classics, loneliness, lonely, mirror, people, poem, poetry, reflection, self, self-esteem, soul, superficial, superficial-beauty, superficiality, ugly

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#17

“I want to be with you. It's as simple, and as complicated as that.”
― Charles Bukowski

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