“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
― Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd
― Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd
“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.”
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“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure. He enters into a labyrinth, he multiplies a thousandfold the dangers which life in itself already brings with it; not the least of which is that no one can see how and where he loses his way, becomes isolated, and is torn piecemeal by some minotaur of conscience. Supposing such a one comes to grief, it is so far from the comprehension of men that they neither feel it, nor sympathize with it. And he cannot any longer go back! He cannot even go back again to the sympathy of men!”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
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