We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAlmost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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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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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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