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“sometimes when everything seems at
its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and the hours, days, weeks
years
seem wasted –
stretched there upon my bed
in the dark
looking upward at the ceiling
i get what many will consider an
obnoxious thought:
it’s still nice to be
Bukowski.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and the hours, days, weeks
years
seem wasted –
stretched there upon my bed
in the dark
looking upward at the ceiling
i get what many will consider an
obnoxious thought:
it’s still nice to be
Bukowski.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.”
― Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
― Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.”
― To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
― To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
“Everywhere transience is plunging into the depths of Being . . . . It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again, "invisibly," inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.”
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