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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISimplicity 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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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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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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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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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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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Sometimes 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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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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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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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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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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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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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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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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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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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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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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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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