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too often, the only escape is sleep
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Henry Charles Bukowski
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There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.
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I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.
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...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.
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Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
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Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
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Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.
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There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.
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