Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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Only the boring get bored.
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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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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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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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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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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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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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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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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 crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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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.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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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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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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