I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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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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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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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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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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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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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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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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