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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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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.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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 crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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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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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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