You have to die a few times before you can really live.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIf you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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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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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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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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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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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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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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