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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBeauty 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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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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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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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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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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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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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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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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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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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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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