"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."

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Charles Bukowski

#Real Quotes #Loneliness Quotes

“From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.”
“A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.”

Source : Robert B. Laughlin (2008). “A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down”, p.162, Basic Books
“A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.”
“So this is the latest doppelgÃ¤nger. The original one was much prettier.”
“I'll let you in on a secret ...How to avoid taking a wrong turn. I speak from experience. Don't blame the world around you. The world is very much larger ...than you realize. Large enough to embrace all of you.”
“As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.”
“I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.”

Source : "Stuph File" with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. August 28, 2016.
“I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously, have lost all before they arrive at my age-& remain like Swift's Stulbruggs-cut and dry for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures:-whereas, I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge.”

Source : L. Candace Pezzera, Edward Lear, Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art (1982). “How pleasant to know Mr. Lear: watercolors by Edward Lear from Rhode Island collections”

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