A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWhat a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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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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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’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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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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