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Charles Bukowski Quotes: My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.
         

My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.


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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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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.

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The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.



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This page presents the quote "My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.". Author of this quote is Charles Bukowski. This quote is about body, sides, spirit,.