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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

Charles Bukowski

Small Things Daily Routine

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Charles Bukowski in The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Life Risk Beginning

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

Foolishness Intelligence Self-Confidence Doubt

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski

Craziness & Weirdness

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

Charles Bukowski

Self-Deception Bed

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

Charles Bukowski in The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Love Breakup

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

Charles Bukowski in Factotum

Laziness Ambition

'That's the problem with drinking', I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Charles Bukowski in Women

Alcohol

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you've felt that way.

Charles Bukowski

Morning

Education also seemed to be a trap. The little education I had allowed myself had made me more suspicious. What were doctors, lawyers, and scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals.

Charles Bukowski in Ham on Rye

Education

It's necassary for me sometimes just to be alone and quiet and doing nothing.

Charles Bukowski

Recovery & Leisure

'Baby,' I said, 'I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.'

Charles Bukowski in Factotum

Genius

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Humanity Breakup Grief & Condolence

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Greed Humanity Money

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Albert Einstein

Humanity Weapons Nuclear Weapons

Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time.

John Coffey in The Green Mile

Humanity

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

Humanity Criminal Minds

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

William Shakespeare

Humanity Appearance

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

H. P. Lovecraft in The Call of Cthulhu

Humanity Creation

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

Charles Bukowski in Factotum

Hope

Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.

Charles Bukowski in Factotum

She was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty.

Charles Bukowski in The People Look Like Flowers at Last

This is presented as a work of fiction and dedicated to nobody.

Charles Bukowski in Post Office

Book Dedications & Preambles

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

FBI

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