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    Charles Bukowski
    “it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse
    or that the hummingbird is so seldom
    seen
    or that we are too senseless to go
    insane.

    coffee. give us more of that NOTHING
    coffee.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
    tags: apathy, nothing
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
    ― Murakami, Haruki
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    Charles Bukowski
    “and even the trees we walked
    under
    seemed
    less than
    trees
    and more like everything
    else.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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    Anne Rice
    “It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
    tags: attraction, co-dependence, divorce, idealism, idealists, marriage, narcissism, sociopathology, the-rules-of-attraction, victims-of-narcissists
    733 likes

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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: love
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
    ― W.Somerset Maugham
    tags: character, friendship
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
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    Haruki Murakami
    “here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
    tags: clock, future, past, possibilities, ticking, time
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do."

    "A rule?"

    "If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
    tags: advice-life-form-formlessness
    85 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
    tags: end, hard-boiled, wonderland, world
    196 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
    tags: emptiness
    654 likes

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  • #17
    Haruki Murakami
    “Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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  • #18
    David Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: books, love, reading
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    Milan Kundera
    “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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    Milan Kundera
    “Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: love, monogamy, polygamy, sleep
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    Milan Kundera
    “she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    864 likes

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  • #22
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “No more let life divide what death can join together.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais
    tags: death
    219 likes

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  • #23
    John Keats
    “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
    Its loveliness increases; it will never
    Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
    A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
    Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: inspirational
    378 likes

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    Sylvia Plath
    “Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: sylvia-plath
    498 likes

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  • #25
    Charles Bukowski
    “My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: age, bukowski, lonely
    281 likes

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  • #26
    Milan Kundera
    “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: heart, mind
    3442 likes

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  • #27
    Khaled Hosseini
    “There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: life
    3390 likes

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    Khaled Hosseini
    “it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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  • #29
    Hwang Sok-yong
    “Sufletul omului e ca mâncarea. Cu timpul, se acreşte.”
    ― Hwang Sŏk-yŏng
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    Hwang Sok-yong
    “A trăi înseamnă a aştepta şi a îndura timpul.”
    ― Hwang Sŏk-yŏng
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