“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka
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“I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.”
― Kafka, Franz
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“Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.”
― Kafka, Franzv
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“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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“They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong ”
― Franz Kafka
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“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense"
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
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“Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.”
― Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories
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“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski
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“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski
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“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski
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“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
Carl Gustav Jung
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"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
Carl Gustav Jung
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“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give.”

― Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
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"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom."

Arthur Schopenhauer
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"A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial."

Arthur Schopenhauer
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"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

Arthur Schopenhauer
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"If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present."

Lao Tzu
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