It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIYou have to die a few times before you can really live.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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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 tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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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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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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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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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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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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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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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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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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