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#1

“If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside

on my fingertips
and at brain edges

and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.”
― Charles Bukowski, Living on Luck

tags: letters, love, relationships

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#2

“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.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humour

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#3

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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#4

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#5

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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#6

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#7

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: love

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#8

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
― Charles Bukowski

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#9

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
― Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner

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#10

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#11

“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

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#12

“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#13

“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.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

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#14

“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

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#15

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

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#16

“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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#17

“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski

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#18

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

tags: life, truth

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#19

“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski, happiness, pain, unhappiness, unhappy

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#20

“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#21

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: paraphrased

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#22

“dogs and angels are not
very far apart”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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#23

“I want so much that is not here and do not know
where to go.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

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#24

“I want to
let her know
though
that all the nights
sleeping
beside her

even the useless
arguments
were things
ever splendid

and the hard
words
I ever feared to
say
can now be
said:

I love
you.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#25

“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

tags: belief, life, perseverance, pessimism, sorrow, weeping

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#26

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#27

“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.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#28

“one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

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#29

“the best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them”
― Charles Bukowski

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#30

“the tired sunsets and the tired
people -
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: die, lifetime, people, sunsets, time, tired

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