"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

(the whole world is at thethroat of the world,everybody feels angry,short-changed, cheated,everybody is despondent,disillusioned.)I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards ofhappiness.
~ Charles Bukowski ~












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