If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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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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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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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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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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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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