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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

Charles Bukowski

I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Be Yourself Delusion Lucky Man Meet Self Love
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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Anger Constant Life Live Notice People Strange Wasted Time
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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Defeat Serious Victory
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Drain Finding Inspirational Kill Love One Liner Weigh
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Feeling Freedom Goodness Rare See Soul
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Expectation Girl Look Nightmare Stop
I lie as truthfully as I can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Lie Truth
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Happen One Liner Poetry Writing
That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alcohol Celebration Drink Funny Humor Sarcastic
Without literature, life is hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Education Hell Life Literature One Liner
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Artist Hard Intellectual Intelligence Simplicity
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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Beauty Lucky People Ugly
Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Bad Death Joke Series
We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Care Die Time Wonder
Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Bad Character Constant Reveal Stress Struggle
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Atheist Church Education Learning System Teaching

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