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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

Charles Bukowski

There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Clock Hands Loneliness Movement World
What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Ability Desire Hard Time Poverty Time
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Crazy Horrible Humor Live People
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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alone Circus Die Each Other Eat Love
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Deep Die Hard Time Life Live Struggle
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Atheist Church Education Learning System Teaching
I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Defeat Serious Victory
Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Death Failure Love Useless Wasted Time
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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Inspirational Save War Worth Yourself
Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Fog Love Reality
Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Deep Human Being Love Possible
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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Democracy Difference Vote Wasted Time
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Break Up Entire Ill Love Recover Serious
I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Guess Happen Injustice People Thinking
That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alcohol Celebration Drink Funny Humor Sarcastic
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Beginning Inspirational Laughter Life Sun

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

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