Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
CHARLES BUKOWSKINobody 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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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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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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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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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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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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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 loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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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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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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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 are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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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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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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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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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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