"since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light"

-- Charles Bukowski

#Light Quotes #People Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“I'm gonna make a ton of money on the rematch, but that decision was horrible.”
“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
“Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.”
“If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist. Si, comme le croient plusieurs Canadiens, le Canada ne peut exister sans le QuÃ©bec, alors il ne mÃ©rite tout simplement pas d'exister.”

Source : "La Colère . Écrits Polémiques". Book by Pierre Bourgault, Volume 3, p. 257, 1996.
“Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.”
“Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes. We must give to receive, realize we are blind to see, become simple to be wise, suffer for gain, and die to live. If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world”
“All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.”
“I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.”

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