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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

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#2

“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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#3

“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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#4

“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

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#5

“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

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#6

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#7

“Is there no way out of the mind?”
― Sylvia Plath

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#8

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

tags: love

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#9

“I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

1337 likes

#10

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#11

“If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.”
― Patricia McCormick, Sold

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#12

“I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

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#13

“When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Glass

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#14

“Love is only found in books”
― Ellen Hopkins, Burned

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#15

“School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.”
― Ellen Hopkins

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#16

“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

tags: belief, life, perseverance, pessimism, sorrow, weeping

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#17

“He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: writing

623 likes

#18

“Don't try.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: on-his-gravestone

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#19

“It began as a mistake.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

tags: opening-line, work

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#20

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#21

“I think I made you up inside my head.”
― Sylvia Plath

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#22

“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: life, plath

663 likes

#23

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148708 likes

#24

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#25

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119338 likes

#26

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#27

“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

71778 likes

#28

“Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

tags: inspirational-love

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#29

“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”
― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

tags: tattoo, tattooing, tattoos

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#30

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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