Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
CHARLES BUKOWSKICan you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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 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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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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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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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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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
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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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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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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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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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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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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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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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