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Charles Bukowski Quotes: 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
         

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


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Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.



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.




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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.



Find what you love and let it kill you.

Find what you love and let it kill you.



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.



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

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



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.



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

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



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.





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I beg You, O my God, to be my life, my ship, my haven. You have made me ascend the cross of Your Son and I struggle to accept it as best I can. I am sure that I shall never come down from it.



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