"Nobody can save you but yourself
And you’re worth saving.
It’s a war not easily won
But if anything is worth winning then
This is it."

~   Charles Bukowski (via melancholicblues)
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10th 3月 2013✧01:49194 リアクション
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"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw
"

~   Charles Bukowski (via candleflickeredred)
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10th 3月 2013✧01:2623 リアクション

"once
we were young
at this
machine…"

~   

“Luck”

Charles Bukowski died on this day 19 years ago. Have a whiskey and a beer in his honor today.

(via notnadia)

(henrycharlesbukowskiから)

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10th 3月 2013✧01:17310 リアクション

"There was something totally missing in the poor fellows and something in me wrenched, just for a moment, and I felt like throwing my arms around them, consoling and embracing them like some Dostoevsky, but I knew that would finally lead nowhere except to ridicule and humiliation, for myself and for them. The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy. It was something we would all have to work for once again."

~   C. Bukowski, Hollywood. (via mattforce7)

(henrycharlesbukowskiから)

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12th 2月 2013✧23:51226 リアクション

"He stays in bed for three or four days drinking, conscious of his inability to belong to what society offers."

~   Charles Bukowski (via moldavia)

(moldaviaから)

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16th 10月 2012✧20:21918 リアクション

"the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh."

~   Charles Bukowski, “Alone with Everybody” (via adieufranz)

(adieufranzから)

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7th 9月 2012✧02:523,147 リアクション

"In other words, loneliness is something I’ve never been bothered with because I’ve always had this terrible itch for solitude. It’s being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness."

~   Charles Bukowski. (via theburnthatkeepseverything)
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17th 8月 2012✧15:3830 リアクション

"Love breaks my
bones and I
laugh"

~   Charles Bukowski (via ulfurs)
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27th 6月 2012✧02:0045 リアクション

"I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was."

~    Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense (via endorphinal)

(anabundanceofから)

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24th 6月 2012✧12:59904 リアクション

"What a weary time those years were — to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability."

~   Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)

(neverendingpoetryから)

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7th 6月 2012✧00:06973 リアクション
misterprankster: “I will only say this, out of a background of factories, park benches, two-bit jobs, bad women, bad weather of Life - the reason the average person is at the track is that they are driven screwy by the turn of the bolt, the foreman’s insane face, the landlord’s hand, the lover’s dead sex; taxation, cancer, the blues; clothes that fall apart on a 3rd wearing, water that tastes like piss, doctors that run assembly-line and indecent offices, hospitals without heart, politicians with skulls filled with pus…we can go on and on but would only be accused of being bitter and demented, but the world makes madmen (and women) of us all, and even the saints are demented, nothing is saved. So. Shit. Well. According to my figures I’ve only had 2500 pieces of ass but I’ve watched 12,500 horse races, and if I have any advice to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.”
24th 5月 2012✧02:44135 リアクション
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"Each man’s hell is in a different place. Mine is just up and behind my ruined face."

~   Charles Bukowski (via used2thepain)
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11th 4月 2012✧17:3513 リアクション

"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 (via cagepurrier)
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