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Beauty’s Door
A college education could destroy an individual for life. Books could make you soft.
When you put them down, and really went out there, then you needed to know what they never told you.
The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished.
~ Charles Bukowski
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What glass is stuck on my tongue! Because I wanted to forget and put a stone wall between your house and mine. It’s true. Don’t you remember it? And when I saw you from afar I threw sand in my eyes. But I was riding a horse and the horse was going to your door. With silver pins my blood got black, and the dream was filling my flesh with weeds. That I’m not to blame, that the fault is the earth and that smell that comes out of your breasts and braids.
— Federico Garcia Lorca, Blood weddings
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.
