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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE For those who are not frightened by the solitude, everything will have a different taste.
PAULO COELHO THE THREE LAWS OF ALL
You are never to worship a living soul,
Except for three entit...
SUZY KASSEM Robots are like Mars: they need
girls.
Boys won't do;
the memesoup is all wrong. The...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Nothing can escape death.
Not even the Sun.
Not even the Earth.
Not even the unive...
HINA YU Do it now.
Sometimes
"later"
Become
"Never
MEIR EZRA They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us ...
KAMAND KOJOURI I hope one day
somebody loves you
so much
that they see violets
in the bags unde...
TRISTA MATEER The evening star
Is the most
beautiful
of all stars
SAPPHO Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they...
MARKUS ZUSAK I love you much
most beautiful darling
more than anyone on the earth
and I like yo...
E.E. CUMMINGS And brilliant days come alive,
with you,
around
but the things we d...
ANDREA KOEHLE JONES sometimes when everything seems at
its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI And there you are
on the shore,
fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER For there is no such thing:
Right person at the right time!
Instead with the right team,...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Your darkness is a symphony
Played in explosions of silence to a crowd that has fallen in...
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER Do you think I'm pretty?”
He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. "I...
RICHELLE MEAD Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it...
RICHELLE MEAD Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost 1874–1963
Here come real stars to fill th...
ROBERT FROST They tell us the only way to move on
is to forget.
“Forgive,” they say.
Realise ...
KAMAND KOJOURI O woman,
father says natural is beautiful
so why do you redden your cheeks
and blac...
KAMAND KOJOURI That thing you thought you'd do
You start to think you can't;
You always say tomorrow,
MARGO T. ROSE The little things are most worthwhile-
A quite word, a look, a smile,
A listening ear that...
MARGARET LINDSEY as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Girls get screwed.
Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of...
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RICHARD BLUMENTHAL Beauty is frightening," they will tell you —
Lazily you will arrange
A Spani...
ALEXANDER BLOK Never forget the nine most important words of any family-
I love you.
You are beauti...
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. I promise you
I will try harder
to be better.
I
have battled with things
...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!
Man is constantly build...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN Why I Cannot Relate
"What do you think of this piece?" Someone will ask
About some w...
KYLEE CARRIER People fail because one of two reasons:
1: They don't know what to do to improve
2: ...
ROB LIANO I will do such things,--
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My mind is like a little house,
My peers break into.
They rearrange my furniture,
And...
MARGO T. ROSE The Genius Of The Crowd
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the avera...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI And these things
that keep alive on departure know that
you praise them; transient,
...
RAINER MARIA RILKE never
trust anyone
who says
they do not see color.
this means
to them,...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Well, what we know
Is not what they tell us
We're not ignorant, I mean it,
And they j...
BOB MARLEY I have been
hanging here
headless
for so long
that the body has forgotten
w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The way of love is not
a subtle argument.
The door there
is devastation. RUMI I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.
still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm one of the
freaks, the faggots,
the geeks, the savages,
rogues, rebels, dissident...
OTEP SHAMAYA I felt ashamed."
"But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?"
...
C.S. LEWIS Many who have learned
from Hesiod the countless names
of gods and monsters
never unde...
HERACLITUS The Weight of One Feather"
Given.
Many fear death
Because they already SUZY KASSEM Lovers dream of one more embrace.
One more kiss.
One act of love, no matter how small.
KAMAND KOJOURI How they are all about, these gentlemen
In chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,
Like ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Words
are powerful
forces of nature.
they are destruction.
they are nouris...
SANOBER KHAN I am that I am
a Goddess, a God
entitled to the deepest and most beautiful sensations
RAMON RAVENSWOOD No one leaves this hidden treasure,
Feeling the same way they came,
They refer their frien...
CHARMAINE J FORDE Butterfly Kisses
Aged imperfections
stitched upon my face
years and years of wi...
MUSE After the second world war
in 1948
they founded the UN,
the United Nations
so th...
AD DE BONT I can tell you that solitude
Is not all exaltation, inner space
Where the soul breathes an...
MAY SARTON Words
Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous ...
ANNE SEXTON I saw the tears of the oppressed—
and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of t...
ANONYMOUS Just looking at them
I grow greedy, as if they were
freshly baked loaves
waiting on t...
LINDA PASTAN I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; <...
PABLO NERUDA The secret tugs at my sleeve.
A child looking for attention.
It is not a big secret.
...
ADELHEID MANEFELDT Lately I can't help wanting us
to be like other people.
For example, if I were a smoker, DEBORAH GARRISON They say I am powerful,
They say I am eloquent,
They say I am wealthy.
But I am...
AYUSHMAN JAMWAL BLACK AND WHITE
I was born into
A religion of Light,
But with so many oth...
SUZY KASSEM This is an ode to life.
The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
KAMAND KOJOURI No one leaves this hidden treasure,
Feeling the same way they came,
They always refer thei...
CHARMAINE J FORDE Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thin...
PETER KREEFT So that you will hear me
my words
sometimes grow thin
as the tracks of the gulls on t...
PABLO NERUDA Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored. There are gam...
DR. SEUSS All round me are words, and words and words,
They grow on me like leaves, they never
Seem ...
KAMALA SURAIYYA DAS Sending out the Disciples
Luke 10
1: AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED O...
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN Blue Planet Phenomenon.
she’s from the pink planet called Constellation
he’s f...
R.M. ROMARNEY 7am
They said that I’d forget you,
and I knew it wasn’t true.
But sometimes...
COCO J. GINGER There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the s...
COLUM MCCANN THE CURSE
May they never
Return home at night...
May you have no part of ...
VISAR ZHITI LOVE IS A FLOWER
Treat your relationship
As if you are growing
The most beautif...
SUZY KASSEM We were told that if we didn't [contribute], they were going to have to do without the bleachers and...
CAROL PAGE They took one look at me,
And hated my black face.
They took one look at me,
And deci...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN OLYMPAS:
There is one doubt. When souls attain
Such an unimagined gain
Shall n...
ALEISTER CROWLEY People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
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with asses that forgo...
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Emergency purposes only
These people are not
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Z. ...
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...
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that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
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nada más que un truco para atenuar nuestra herida.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI las palabras bonitas
como las mujeres bonitas
se arrugan y mueren.
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to the
darkness.
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against
they have nothing to struggle
for.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI that your power of command
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one of the magnificent things of
...
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think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making
words do a few things. I see enoug...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI So be careful when you bend over.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time
CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.
still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my <...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need
CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI