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

“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. The dead fucking the dead. There was no gamble or humor in their game -it was corpse fucking corpse. Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience down through the centuries. Some morals tended to keep people slaves in factories, in churches and true to the State. Other morals simply made good sense. It was like a garden filled with poisoned fruit and good fruit. You had to know which to pick and eat, which to leave alone.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Imagination governs the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
― Stella Adler

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.”
― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

“An idea is salvation by imagination”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose...

...Describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty - describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world’s sounds – wouldn’t you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. - And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. Nor will you try to interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it. A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”
― Ansel Adams

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius, The Book of Rites

“Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.”
― Frank Zappa

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”
― Orson Welles

“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
― Adolf Hitler

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
― Walter Langer

“And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.”
― Adolf Hitler

“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
― Adolf Hitler

“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes”
― Adolf Hitler

“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”
― Adolf Hitler

“Words build bridges into unexplored regions.”
― Adolf Hitler

“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.”
― Hermann Rauschning, The Voice of Destruction

“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
― Adolf Hitler

“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. ”
― Adolf Hitler, Hitler's Letters and Notes

“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”
― Adolf Hitler

“The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.”
― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

“I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler -
because George Bush, for one thing,
is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.”
― David Clennon

“Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?

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― Adolf Hitler

“If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.”
― Adolf Hitler