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Ham on Rye

by Charles Bukowski

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May 31, 2026 12:41PM

Paul’s Quotes

“Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anxiety, career, choices, decisions, dreams, dying, fear, feelings, goal-setting, goals, living, longing, love, misery, not-living, plans, relationship

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“Nights I stay up writing about you, wondering where you've gone, my heart doesn't understand your absence, I do my best to reassure, but its erratic beating tells me it doesn't believe my lies.”
― D. Michael Hardy, Pain and Longing: Poetry and Photography

tags: heart, longing, longing-for-love, poetry, writing

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“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
― Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

tags: absence, long-distance-love, longing, love, separation

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“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

tags: akiva, desire, destiny, fate, karou, lonely, longing, love

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