I wanted the whole world or nothing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPoetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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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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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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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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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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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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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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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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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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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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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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Only the boring get bored.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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