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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.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.
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The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
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