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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIn my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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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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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 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 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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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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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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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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