Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
CHARLES BUKOWSKITime is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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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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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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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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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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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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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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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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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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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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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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Only the boring get bored.
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