The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKITime is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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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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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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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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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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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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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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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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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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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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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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