Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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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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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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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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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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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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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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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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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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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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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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We’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.
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