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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard
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