The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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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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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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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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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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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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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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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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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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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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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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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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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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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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