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 BUKOWSKIWe must bring our own light to the darkness.
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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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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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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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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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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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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We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
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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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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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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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 have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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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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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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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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