Bohumil Hrabal Quotes
I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.
Bohumil Hrabal
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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Camille Paglia
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Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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Baron d'Holbach
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Edgar Degas
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Wallace Stevens
Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Hillary Clinton
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Antonio Porchia
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Jeff Bridges
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Alice Ripley
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Elif Safak
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Abraham Cowley
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William Blake
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Nikolai Berdyaev
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Francis Ford Coppola
I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.
Bohumil Hrabal
