A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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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 went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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