I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBefore my death I hope to obtain my life
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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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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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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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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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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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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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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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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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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