“Je suis vivant. Et pendant que je mange, je ne fais rien d'autre que manger. Quand je marcherai, je marcherai, c'est tout. Et s'il faut un jour me battre, n'importe quel jour en vaut un autre pour mourir. Parce que je ne vis ni dans mon passé ni dans mon avenir. Je n'ai que le présent, et c'est lui seul qui m'intéresse. Si tu peux demeurer toujours dans le présent, alors tu seras un homme heureux.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.”
― Notebooks, 1942-1951
― Notebooks, 1942-1951
“What's so special about me?" There isn't anything special
about you, at least, nothing I can put my finger on. And yet and here's the mystery of life - I
can't think of anything else.”
― Eleven Minutes
about you, at least, nothing I can put my finger on. And yet and here's the mystery of life - I
can't think of anything else.”
― Eleven Minutes
“Il rêvait et il voulait mentir, on lui a coupé la langue pour que sa parole ne vienne plus tromper le monde.”
― Exile and the Kingdom
― Exile and the Kingdom
“It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
― Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd
― Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd
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