Charles Bukowski

"My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.~ Falsely yours"

"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."

"Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it."

"nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."

"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."

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

"Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.some lose both and become accepted"

"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."

"Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje."

"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."

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

"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."

"Find what you love and let it kill you."

"and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter"

"there are worse thingsthan being alonebut it often takesdecades to realize thisand most often when you doit's too lateand there's nothing worsethan too late"