“I Don’t Want To Be Threatening, Just Feared Enough To Never Have To Make A Fist.”

“The cop’s gun said, ‘I need to request some time off,’ and the bullet said, ‘All these frequent flyer miles and I always seem to travel to dark destinations.’”

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Donney Rose, “Last Words”

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“I’m not sentimental — I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last — the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.”

— Albert Camus

I’m for the plurality of positions. Can we launch the party of those who are not certain of being right? That would be my party. In any case, I never insult those who do not think exactly like me. That is my only originality.

Albert Camus, Dialogue pour le dialogue, 1949. (via frederick-the-great)

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus, The Fall (via the-book-diaries)

“The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold… The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war between princes.” - Michel de Montaigne, Essais

At the end of a relationship, it is the one who is not in love that makes the tender speeches.

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love (via the-book-diaries)

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

(Charles Bukowski)

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

John Green

“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”

— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (via the-book-diaries)