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“actually, her life is boring and rather common but most are—mine is too except when lifted by whiskey”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

“She’d thought: “Christ was Christ for others, but who? Who was a Christ for Christ?” He’d had to go directly to the God. And she, as she sat in the pew, had also wanted to be able to go directly to the Omnipotence, without having to go through Christ’s human condition which was also hers and everyone else’s. And, oh, God, not wanting to go to Him through the merciful condition of Christ might once again be nothing more than the fear of loving.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“Man should not be able to see his own face. Nothing is more terrible than that. Nature gave him the gift of being unable either to see his face or to look into his own eyes. He could only see his own face in the waters of rivers and lakes. Even the posture he had to adopt to do so was symbolic. He had to bend down, to lower himself, in order to commit the ignominy of seeing his own face. The creator of the mirror poisoned the human soul.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“Let's let the bombs go
I'm tired of waiting”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense