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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Charles Bukowski
Life, Anger, People

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

Charles Bukowski
Inspirational, Life, Death

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

Charles Bukowski
Life, Crazy, People

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski
Life, Sunset, Thought Provoking

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski
Life, Odds, Laughing
"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture". Life Magazine, December 1988.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Charles Bukowski
Life, Thought Provoking, Genius
"Notes of a Dirty Old Man".

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski
Life, Truth, Kind

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski
Inspirational, Life, Simple
Charles Bukowski (2008). “Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990”, City Lights Publishers

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski
Life, Hipster, People

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski
Life, Art, Thought Provoking

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