There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. - Charles Bukowski
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
- Charles Bukowski
the history of melancholia includes all of us. - Charles Bukowski
the history of melancholia includes all of us.
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it. - Charles Bukowski
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.
nobody ever finds the one - Charles Bukowski
nobody ever finds the one
I'm only interested in poetry. - Charles Bukowski
I'm only interested in poetry.
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. - Charles Bukowski
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
Don’t do it. Don’t love me. - Charles Bukowski
Don’t do it. Don’t love me.
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. - Charles Bukowski
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.
I hope that death contains less than this. - Charles Bukowski
I hope that death contains less than this.
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