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Chuck Palahniuk

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01Undated

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

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02Undated

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

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03Undated

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

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04Undated

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

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05Undated

Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.

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06Undated

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

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07Undated

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

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08Undated

Make me into anything, but just love me.

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09Undated

I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

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10Undated

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

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11Undated

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

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12Undated

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

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13Undated

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

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14Undated

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

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15Undated

You can’t fool people into loving you.

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16Undated

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

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17Undated

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

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18Undated

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

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19Undated

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.

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20Undated

At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

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21Undated

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

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22Undated

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

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23Undated

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

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24Undated

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

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