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#1

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

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#2

“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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#3

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

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#4

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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#5

“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

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#6

“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski, happiness, pain, unhappiness, unhappy

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#7

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: paraphrased

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#8

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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#9

“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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#10

“I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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#11

“A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

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#12

“Justice," she said. " I've heard that word. It's a cold world. I tried it out," she said, still speaking in that low voice. "I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

tags: justice

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#13

“Have all beautiful things sad destinies?”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

tags: beautiful, beauty, destiny, question, sad

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#14

“Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

tags: alone, solitude

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#15

“What is a home if not the first place you learn to run from?”
― Clementine von Radics

tags: home, house, running

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#16

“God I want you
in some primal, wild way
animals want each other.
Untamed and full of teeth.
God I want you,
In some chaste, Victorian way.
A glimpse of your ankle
just kills me.”
― Clementine von Radics

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