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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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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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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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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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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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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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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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