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Charles Bukowski Quotes: We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
         

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.


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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.




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.

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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Trebuie sa te departezi putin de tine ca sa te poti apropia de ceilalti.



Humankind demonstrates an unerring ability to witness beauty. By observing nature’s beauty and striving to create beautiful things, humankind brokers its own salvation.

Humankind demonstrates an unerring ability to witness beauty. By observing nature’s beauty and striving to create beautiful things, humankind brokers its own salvation.



The best way to love someone is to let them reveal their inner beauty that will enlighten your soul and the heart of the universe.

The best way to love someone is to let them reveal their inner beauty that will enlighten your soul and the heart of the universe.



We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.



For better or worse, he was my soul mate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.

For better or worse, he was my soul mate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.



The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.



The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.



I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.



The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.



When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.




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