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 BUKOWSKIIf you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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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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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.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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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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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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