Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISome moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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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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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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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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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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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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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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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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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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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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