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Charles Bukowski Quotes: And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.
         

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.


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