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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDeath meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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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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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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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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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 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.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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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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Without literature, life is hell.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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