"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
~ Charles Bukowski ~












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