What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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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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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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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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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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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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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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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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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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