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“But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.” -Haruki Murakami

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“If you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly you are bad. Morality has aesthetic standards.” — Nietzsche

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"Drink heavily with locals whenever possible." ~ Anthony Bourdain

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Paul Newman. 12 pack of beer a day for decades. Chained smoked. No morning routine. No supplements. No sun gazing. No fasting. No ice baths. No journaling. Lived artistically and handsome to the ripe old age of 83. When men were men.

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We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. —Louise Gluck

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“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.” —Umberto Eco

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“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.” —Carl Jung

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“I’m not telling you to make the world better I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it." —Joan Didion

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"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves

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“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” — Albert Camus

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"I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes." ~ Jane Birkin, RIP

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“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal…

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“Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.” ~ Tom Waits

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Everything changes, everything moves, everything evolves, everything flies and goes away. —Frida Kahlo

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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. —Fernando Pessoa

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RIP Louise Gluck 😢 “We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”

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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum...” —Noam Chomsky

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“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be.” --Charles Bukowski

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Everything changes, everything moves, everything evolves, everything flies and goes away. —Frida Kahlo

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Everything changes, everything moves, everything evolves, everything flies and goes away. —Frida Kahlo

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“Some people think life is in gluttony, others in the joys of sex, still others in power, and others in worldly glory. They waste their energy on all these pastimes, while in fact people need only one thing: to cultivate their soul.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.” — Nietzsche

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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." —Henry David Thoreau

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"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself." ~ Henry Miller

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“Some people think life is in gluttony, others in the joys of sex, still others in power, and others in worldly glory. They waste their energy on all these pastimes, while in fact people need only one thing: to cultivate their soul.” — Leo Tolstoy

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"You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it." – Nietzsche

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"Life goes on. Hopes rise and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain." ~ Hunter S. Thompson

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“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” ― James Baldwin

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"Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey." ~ Ernest Hemingway

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“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.” ― Miles Davis

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“In the afterlife, we’ll sit around talking about the good old days, when we wished that we were dead.” - Samuel Beckett

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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. —Frida Kahlo

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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. ~ Saul Bellow

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"Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice." -- Charles Bukowski

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The old world is dying. And the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters. - Antonio Gramsci

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“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.” — Yohji Yamamoto

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"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again." — ee cummings

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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. —Edith Sitwell

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"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other." --Paul Valery

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“I don't like ass kissers, flag wavers or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists. I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in…

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“You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.” —Samuel Beckett

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“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” ― Anthony Bourdain

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“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.” ― Charles Bukowski

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“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.” ― Francis Bacon

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“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their children than the unlived life of the parent.” – Carl Jung

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"If you really want to piss people off, you can do two things: Attain some happiness or tell the truth." —Tennessee Williams

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“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?” —Virginia Woolf

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“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” ― James Baldwin

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“You can’t get to old age by another man’s road. My vices protect me but they would assassinate you.” -- Mark Twain

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“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.” —Umberto Eco

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"All I can do is be me -- whoever that is." ~ Bob Dylan

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The great Franz Kafka born on this day in 1883: "Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

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“To be alive at all is to have scars." - John Steinbeck, born on this day in 1902.

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“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.” ~ Hubert Reeves

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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” —Oscar Wilde

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“Life is a vexatious trap : when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness, he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape." ~ Anton Chekhov

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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act. — Charles Bukowski

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“It's tragic how few people ever possess their souls before they die. Nothing is more rare in any man, than an act of his own. It is quite true. Most people are other people.” —Oscar Wilde

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we must bring our own light to the darkness. nobody is going to do it for us. ~ Bukowski

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“You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.” - Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

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“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.” —Nikos Kazantzakis

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“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” —Bertrand Russell

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“Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.” ― Michel Foucault

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"Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid." ~ Bob Dylan

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"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners." --Albert Camus

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“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.” ― Leonard Cohen

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"You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally ? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books… " —Carl Jung

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Most of them speak what they have been taught, not what they have learned. -- Bukowski

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The truth does not require your participation to exist. Bullshit does. — Terence McKenna

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"Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors." ~ Ernest Hemingway

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“If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good” ―Ezra Pound

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“In Paradise everything is permitted, except curiosity.” — Lev Shestov

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“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their children than the unlived life of the parent.” – Carl Jung

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"Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless." —Albert Camus

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Will you love me in December as you do in May? —Jack Kerouac

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“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.” ― kurt vonnegut

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“It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.” ― Marie-Louise von Franz

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“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.” ― Charles Bukowski

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“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” ― Leo Tolstoy

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All great and precious things are lonely. —John Steinbeck

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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me. ~ Leonard Cohen

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"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.” --Bertrand Russell

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“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.” ~ Albert Einstein

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair

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"Recognize that your struggle and your suffering is the same as everyone else’s, I think that’s the beginning of a responsible life. Otherwise, we are in a continual savage battle with each other with no possible solution, political, social, or spiritual." - Leonard Cohen

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“Something else is hurting you—that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.” —Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

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“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.” —Yoshida Kenko

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“I don’t feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall like seeking love in a whorehouse.” — Susan Sontag

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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. --Andre Breton

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“In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.” ― Jonas Mekas

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“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.” ― Thomas Bernhard, Correction

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Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that. ~ Jack Kerouac

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"The folks who know the truth aren't talking...The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!" ~ Tom Waits

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“I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.” —Mark Twain

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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love. ~ Nassim Taleb

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"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it." ~ Robert Frost

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"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" ~ Hemingway

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