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Find what you love and let it kill you.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Charles Bukowski
Love, Inspirational, Death
"Did Charles Bukowski Really Say, 'Find What You Love and Let it Kill You?'" by Jef Rouner, www.houstonpress.com. July 16, 2013.

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

Charles Bukowski
Inspirational, Life, Death

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
Love, Death, Novelists
Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.10, Harper Collins

My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours

Charles Bukowski
Love, Death, Drains

... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

Charles Bukowski
Death, Morning, Eggs
Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.23, Harper Collins

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. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

Charles Bukowski
Death, Country, Flower
"The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1998.

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