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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Charles Bukowski
    “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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    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humour
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    Charles Bukowski
    “My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Find what you love and let it kill you.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: love
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    Sebastian Barry
    “A man’s memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. Can’t do much about that. We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards.”
    ― Sebastian Barry, Days Without End
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
    23584 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: sleep
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: trust, truth
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
    tags: love, pain, relationships, self
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: humility, self-improvement
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    ― Hemingway, Ernest
    tags: drinking
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life, living
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: loneliness, people, scared, world
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    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: loneliness
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    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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    Carson McCullers
    “Next to music, beer was best.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    tags: drinking, music
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    Carson McCullers
    “We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
    ― Carson McCullers
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    Carson McCullers
    “Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    441 likes

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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
    16212 likes



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