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“People haven't always been there for me but music always has.”
―
Taylor Swift
tags:
music
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#2
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
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Charles Bukowski
tags:
humor
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#3
“Do you hate people?”
“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
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Charles Bukowski,
Barfly
tags:
humour
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misanthropy
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paraphrased
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#4
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
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Charles Bukowski
tags:
humour
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#5
“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
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Charles Bukowski
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#6
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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Charles Bukowski
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#7
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
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Charles Bukowski,
Factotum
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#8
“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
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Charles Bukowski,
The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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#9
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
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Charles Bukowski
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#10
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
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Charles Bukowski
tags:
love
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#11
“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
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#12
“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
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Charles Bukowski
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#13
“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
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Charles Bukowski
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#14
“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
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Charles Bukowski,
Women
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#15
“the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
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Charles Bukowski,
Tales of Ordinary Madness
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#16
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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loneliness
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misattributed
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“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
tags:
empathy
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thankful
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understanding
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understanding-others
2797 likes
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#18
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby
2781 likes
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#19
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
―
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby
tags:
renewal
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summer
4442 likes
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#20
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
―
F. Scott Fitzgerald
tags:
happiness
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inspiration
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life
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#21
“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
tags:
on-writing
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#22
“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”
―
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby
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#23
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche,
Twilight of the Idols
tags:
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#24
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
―
Bob Marley
tags:
music
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#25
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
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Victor Hugo
tags:
literature
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music
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poetry
13872 likes
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#26
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
tags:
dance
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music
10864 likes
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#27
“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
―
Paul McCartney,
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
6014 likes
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#28
“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
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John Green,
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
tags:
humor
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life
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music
5097 likes
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#29
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
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Langston Hughes,
The Collected Poems
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death
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life
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“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
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Annie Proulx
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