Charles Bukowski

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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."

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

"Humanity, you never had it to begin with."

"I want to be with you, it's as simple, and as complicated as that."

"I've had so many knives stuck into me, when I'm handed a flower I can't quite make out what it is. It takes time."

"My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
~Falsely yours"

"It's true: pain and suffering helps to create what we call art. Given the choice I'd never choose this damned pain and suffering for myself but somehow it finds me as the royalties continue to roll on." - What Can I DO?

"Nobody can save you but yourself - you are worth saving. It's a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning - this is it."

"The bravery of some is close to fear
and the fearsome is close to
bravery." - 1st stanza of Working Through it All

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