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#1

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, nineteen-eighty-four

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#2

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

2858 likes

#3

“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: die, freedom, hate

727 likes

#4

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

11226 likes

#5

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
― Charles Bukowski

2586 likes

#7

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: introspection, retreat, solitude

1927 likes

#8

“I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

1338 likes

#10

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: james-joyce, ulysses

2404 likes

#11

“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

1508 likes

#12

“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

1123 likes

#13

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

5106 likes

#14

“I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

tags: books, classics, reading

97 likes

#15

“animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

tags: animals, heaven, hell

330 likes

#15

“humanity you sick motherfucker.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems: A Poetry Collection on Writing, Death, and City Life

14 likes

#16

“age is no crime but the shame of a deliberately wasted life among so many deliberately wasted lives is.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems: A Poetry Collection on Writing, Death, and City Life

8 likes

#17

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

tags: atheism, god, religion

1459 likes

#17

“I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

tags: hell, music

119 likes

#18

“Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

1566 likes

#19

“Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, big-brother, george, george-orwell, government, orwell

465 likes

#20

“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

tags: fiction, humor

1156 likes

#21

“it seemed less real, and that was what was needed.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

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#22

“Love loves to love love.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

680 likes

#23

“Wise son of a bitch, you’re one of those sons of bitches with a vocabulary and you like to lay it around!”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

1 likes

#24

“well, I’ve been bombed out of better places than this,”
― Charles Bukowski, Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems – Rare American Poetry, Hilarious and Ringing with Humanity

1 likes

#25

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”
― Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, rebel

893 likes

#26

“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

552 likes

#27

“TIME WOUNDS ALL HEELS.”
― Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man

2 likes

#28

“Let my country die for me.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: war

204 likes

#29

“My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.”
― James Joyce

162 likes

#30

“You can still die when the sun is shining.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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