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    Stefan Zweig
    “A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A creature such as I, I know, has no right to love, and certainly no right to be loved. It is for such a creature to creep away into a corner and die and cease to make other people's lives a burden with her presence.”
    ― Stefan Zweig , Beware of Pity
    tags: broken, burden, cease, creature, creep, cripple, die, disgust, hide, lame, loathing, love, right, shattered
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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
    “My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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    Charles Bukowski
    “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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    Kinky Friedman
    “My dear,
    Find what you love and let it kill you.
    Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
    Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
    For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
    ~ Falsely yours”
    ― Kinky Friedman
    tags: death, love
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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    Charles Bukowski
    “She was desperate and she was choosey
    at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what
    she imagined herself to be.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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    Charles Bukowski
    “People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
    tags: love, success
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  • #11
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Charles Bukowski
    “It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #15
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
    tags: art, love
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  • #17
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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  • #18
    Gautama Buddha
    “Attachment leads to suffering.”
    ― Buddha
    tags: buddhism
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  • #19
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: stars-dreams
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  • #21
    Émile Zola
    “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
    ― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise
    tags: boredom, misattributed-vincent-van-gogh, passion
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “The sadness will last forever.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: forever, sadness, van-gogh, vincent-van-goghogh
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: inspirational
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  • #27
    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: depression-silence
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  • #29
    Sylvia Plath
    “The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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  • #30
    Charles Bukowski
    “Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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