Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
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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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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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Only the boring get bored.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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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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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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