Without literature, life is hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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