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#1

“each man's hell is in a different place:
mine is just up and behind
my ruined face.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#2

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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#3

“i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#4

“Our disappointment sits between us.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

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#5

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humbert-humbert, love

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#6

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#7

“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: prostitution

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#8

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

tags: carpe-diem, day, daytime, window

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#9

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love

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#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

“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

tags: attainment, desire

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#12

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

tags: melancholy

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#13

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: melancholy

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#14

“I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: melancholy, sadness

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#15

“I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.”
― Diana Vreeland

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#16

“I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.”
― Andrea Gibson

tags: andrea-gibson, love, poem, wasabi

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#17

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

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#18

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

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#19

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kiss, kissing

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#20

“Your journal pages. Your effort to cry words”
― Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

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#21

“Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.”
― Zsa Zsa Gabor

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#22

“Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.”
― H. P. Lovercraft

tags: herbert-west-reanimator

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#23

“A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
― Coco Chanel

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#24

“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: hair, haircut, woman, women

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#25

“I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: champagne

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#26

“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

tags: alone, solitude

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#27

“It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: the-little-prince

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#28

“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: flowers, poetry

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#29

“The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own”
― Fernando Pessoa

tags: perfume, strange, unnatural

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#30

“I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

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