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    William S. Burroughs
    “I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink...”
    ― William S. Burroughs
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    William S. Burroughs
    “If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
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    William S. Burroughs
    “There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: love, risk
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    Anthony Liccione
    “I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: better, darkness, everything, feel, hear, meaning, mind, moonlight, music, nothing, perception, quote, reasoning, see, senses, serenity, silence, soul, sound, spirit, touch, understanding, wind
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    Anthony Liccione
    “There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over you.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: ass, brown-nose, idiots, jerks, people, shit
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    Anthony Liccione
    “It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: appearence, bling, contentment, darkness-and-light, flashy, flesh, glitter, happiness, jewelry, materialism, modest, money, poor-and-humble, rich-and-pride, shine, silver-and-gold, spiritual
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    Anthony Liccione
    “In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: accurate, black-and-white, concrete, fake-people, fine-print, obtrusive, personality, smugly, transparent, true-colors, truth, two-goody-shoes, virtuous-person
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    Anthony Liccione
    “There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more you grow.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: envy, failure, grow, haters, ignorance, jealousy, people, prejudice, pride, prosper, stay-behind, succeed
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    Anthony Liccione
    “A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: bastard, cheat, counterfeit, crook, deceiver, fake, forger, impostor, phony, pretender, quack, racketeer, sham, swindler, trickster
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    Anthony Liccione
    “I just wanted to tell you, how beautiful you were; that day, that night, that life.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: absence, beautiful, broken-heart, day-and-night, life, missing-someone, relationship, remembrance, sadness, thinking-about-the-past
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    William Shakespeare
    “Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
    And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: horatio
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    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
    tags: hope, light
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    Leonard Cohen
    “I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Leonard Cohen
    “It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Leonard Cohen
    “We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
    tags: friendship
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Everybody knows that the dice are loaded,
    Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed,
    Everybody knows that the war is over,
    Everybody knows the good guys lost.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, The Leonard Cohen Collection
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    Leonard Cohen
    “It doesn't matter how anything happens.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game
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    Leonard Cohen
    “It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Leonard Cohen
    “It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
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    Leonard Cohen
    “It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a
    real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but
    one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and
    changed into itself over and over.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
    tags: life, philosophy, poetry
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    Leonard Cohen
    “I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Leonard Cohen
    “there's no forsaking what you love
    no existential leap
    as witnessed here in time and blood
    a thousand kisses deep”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Gore Vidal
    “Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. ”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: euphemisms, language, political-correctness, politics, propoganda
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: devil, hell, world
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