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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe 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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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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 never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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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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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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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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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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