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Charles Bukowski Quotes: I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
         

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.


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



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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.



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