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 BUKOWSKIIf you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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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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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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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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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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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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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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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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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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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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Without literature, life is hell.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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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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