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Charles Bukowski Quotes: "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?"

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?




Charles Bukowski Quotes: "People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "Find what you love and let it kill you."

Find what you love and let it kill you.




Charles Bukowski Quotes: "If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life."

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality."

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one."

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.




Charles Bukowski Quotes: "You have to die a few times before you can really live."

You have to die a few times before you can really live.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare."

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."

Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live."

Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn."

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable."

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them."

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors."

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of."

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong."

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out."

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start."

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness."

There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "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."

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.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "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."

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 Bukowski Quotes: "Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone."

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people."

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless."

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers."

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence."

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time."

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."

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



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water."

people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted"

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "what matters most is how well you walk through the fire"

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time."

I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "‎"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire."

‎"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for."

The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain."

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "as the spirit wanes the form appears"

as the spirit wanes the form appears



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity"

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "The less I needed, the better I felt."

The less I needed, the better I felt.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.



Charles Bukowski Quotes: "God is a lonely place without steak."

God is a lonely place without steak.