Quotes About Clarity

YOU DON'T SMELL FIRE, I yelled. YOU SMELL SMOKE.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. (Writing, New Poems Book Three)

i'm easy to understand even when i don't understand myself...

There was something about funerals. It made you see things better. A funeral a day and I'd be rich.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.

Një intelektual thotë një gjë të thjeshtë në një mënyrë të vështirë. Një artist thotë një gjë të vështirë në një mënyrë të thjeshtë.

an intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

But it's only when a man gets to the point of a gun in his mouth that he can see the whole world inside of his head. Anything else is conjecture, conjecture and bullshit and pamphlets.

The less i needed the better i felt.

the best writers have said very little and the worst, far too much.

The best way to think is not at all

no te precipites. si existe la luz ella misma dará contigo.

it seemed less real, and that was what was needed.

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity. ? Charles Bukowski, Women (: Ecco; Reprint edition, February 27, 2007) Originally published 1978.

Ä°NTÄ°HAR. Aniden yanan bir ???k gibi. Karanl?kta. Ç?k?? yolu olduÄŸunu bilmek içerde kalmay? kolaylaÅŸt?r?r.

When you've considered everything, you've considered too much.

Stop insisting on clearing your head—clear your fucking heart instead.

neyse, 69 erken bir ölümdü Huxley için. ama bir temizlikçi kad?n için de erkendir. ancak bize dayanma gücü veren insanlar söz konusu olduÄŸunda, bütün o ayd?nl???n birden kararmas? sars?yor insan? biraz-

This last sentence is imprecise.

TRUTH IS THE STABILIZING FORCE OF LIFE.

Dear God, please don't grant me one of those magic mirrors. The ones that make a person see only what they want to believe about themselves--not as others actually see them. I'd rather be aware of myself, including the flaws, and keep it real. Amen.

I wish I could explain things better, to make you understand. But I can't. It's just too hard to find the right word.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.