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    Charles Bukowski
    “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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    André Malraux
    “What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
    ― André Malraux
    tags: misanthropy
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    Walter Alexander Raleigh
    “I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"!”
    ― Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
    tags: hatred, humanity, humans, misanthropy, society
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    W.C. Fields
    “Marry an outdoors woman. That way, if you have to throw her out into the yard for the night, she can still survive.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: chauvanism, misanthropy
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Akira Kurosawa
    “In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
    ― Akira Kurosawa
    tags: insanity, madness, sanity
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    William Shakespeare
    “Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: madness
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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    Bill Hicks
    “I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.”
    ― Bill Hicks
    tags: humour, misanthropy
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    Bill Hicks
    “I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.”
    ― Bill Hicks
    tags: misanthropy, perspective
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”
    ― Emil Cioran
    tags: misanthropy, philosophy
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    Jean Giono
    “I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.”
    ― Jean Giono, An Italian Journey
    tags: misanthropy, solitude
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
    11840 likes

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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: introspection, solitude
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude
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    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: nature, poetry, solitude
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    Albert Camus
    “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

    [The Minotaur]”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: introspection, retreat, solitude
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    Hermann Hesse
    “We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.”
    ― Hermann Hesse
    tags: loneliness, solitude, spirit
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: autumn, fall, solitude
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    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
    tags: martyrdom, suicide
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    Bill Maher
    “Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!”
    ― Bill Maher
    tags: suicide
    986 likes



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