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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? — Charles Bukowski, Post Office
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I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me. — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of — Christopher Hitchens
I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta — I insist on color.
A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon
In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life. — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is — Dan Simmons, Drood
the best part waspulling down theshadesstuffing the doorbellwith ragsputting the phonein therefrigeratorand going to bed — Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it. — Charles Bukowski
I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness. — Charles Bukowski
I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths — Richard M. Rorty
during my worst timeson the park benchesin the jailsor living withwhoresI always had this certaincontentment-I wouldn't — Charles Bukowski
If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket. — Charles Bukowski
The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses. — Oscar Wilde, Reviews
If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It — Charles Baudelaire
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever live — Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje. — Charles Bukowski
The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed — Christopher Hitchens