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.
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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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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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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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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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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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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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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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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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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