Quote by Charles Bukowski (about Small Things, Daily Routine)

Quote by Charles Bukowski (about Small Things, Daily Routine)

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.

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