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#1

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

#2

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that is wants to live humbly for one.”
― Wilhelm Stekel

tags: catcher-in-the-rye, immaturity, quoted, salinger, selflessness

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#3

“Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.”
― J. D. Salinger

tags: caring, catcher-in-the-rye, days, lost

13 likes

#4

“I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely”
― Sylvia Plath

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#5

“You call it hope — that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems

tags: hope, poetry

135 likes

#6

“And boyhood is a summer sun / Whose waning is the dreariest one-- / For all we live to know is known, / And all we seek to keep hath flown--”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Poetry

11 likes

#7

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

11163 likes

#8

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony

6469 likes

#9

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

8639 likes

#10

“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: heartache, loss, love

3095 likes

#11

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

2492 likes

#12

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

1605 likes

#13

“Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: bereavement, crying, sorrow

1573 likes

#14

“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

1415 likes

#15

“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
― Edgar Allen Poe

1165 likes

#16

“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, death, poetry, women

1047 likes

#17

“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

2745 likes

#18

“she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

1162 likes

#19

“in that drunken place
you would
like to hand your heart to her
and say
touch it
but then
give it back.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

1002 likes

#20

“purple does something strange to me”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

298 likes

#21

“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

tags: men, sexes, women

281 likes

#22

“To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

tags: agony, insanity, pain

216 likes

#23

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats.”
― charles bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

tags: defeats, life, poetry, victories

81 likes

#24

“we drove on and on,
past little villages and both good things and
bad things were happening to the
people in those villages too,
but I still was nothing
but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be
either some good luck for me or
more death tomorrow.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

20 likes

#25

“there's no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

tags: personal

17 likes

#26

“is that death
stalking me
now?

no, it’s only my cat,
this
time.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

16 likes

#27

“Life is and is not a gentle bore.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

tags: boredom, life, pessimism

3 likes

#28

“I said goodbye again
sucking up all that was left of her into the
little that was left of me.
I said, don’t look for me again. fuck it.
we are all lost. goodbye, goodbye.

— Charles Bukowski, from “Rimbaud be damned,” The People Look Like Flowers at Last. (Ecco; First Edition edition March 27, 2007)”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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#29

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

tags: goals

5416 likes

#30

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature

5494 likes

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