"If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dul...

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Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work
More Charles Bukowski quotes
"Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.
"I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?
"Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgu...
"it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate when nothing ispromisednow young girls weep alone...