The less I needed, the better I felt.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIf you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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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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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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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.
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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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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.
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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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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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