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 BUKOWSKIReal loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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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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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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