The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it — basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Charles Bukowski

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


kunstbetrieb.
for you, always.



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