People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWhat matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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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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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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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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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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