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Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.
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Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.
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