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Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry...

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A town loved with bitter love.

I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of t...

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There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

love needs too much help, he said.hate takes care of itself.

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Charles BukowskiPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

the worst thing," he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting...

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I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspic...

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Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasure...

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Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patie...

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He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create ...

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Jewel (singer)Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like ...

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She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...

Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despa...

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You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I...

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Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not...

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What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adult...

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The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with ...

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It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bit...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

No one will retrieve my lost heartamidst so many roots, in the bitter freshnessof the sun multiplied...

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No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,...

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The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often t...

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The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often t...

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The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often t...

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The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often t...

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Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

Naturally all of them had a sad story: too much notice, not enough, or the worst kind. Some tale abo...

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