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 BUKOWSKIPeople with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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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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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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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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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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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 problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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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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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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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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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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