“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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"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."

Lao Tzu
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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

Winston S. Churchill
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“So then you’re free?’
‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.”
― Franz Kafka
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“Please — consider me a dream.”
― Franz Kafka
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“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
― Charles Bukowski
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“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac
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We know what we are, but not what we may be.

William Shakespeare
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

Ned Vizzini
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The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

Nietzsche
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