Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPeople 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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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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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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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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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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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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