I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.

Charles Bukowski

I stopped looking for a dream girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

Charles Bukowski

I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.

Charles Bukowski

Stop insisting on clearing your head — clear your fucking heart instead.

Charles Bukowski

This incompleteness is all we have.

Charles Bukowski

People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

Charles Bukowski

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

Charles Bukowski

Wherever the crowd goes, run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

Charles Bukowski

What matters most is how well you walk in the fire.

Charles Bukowski

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.

Charles Bukowski


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