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

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

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  2. My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people. – Charles Bukowski
  3. Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me.Those are the years that know-“ love’s eternity is you. – C Elizabeth
  4. I would rather live 10 years doing what I Love, than drag through Life 50 years, hating everyday I Live. – RVM
  5. What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire. – Stanley Kunitz
  6. There is no greater freedom than the freedom to desire. There is no greater desire than the desire to be free. – R A Delmonico
  7. The greatest desire is the desire to be free. The greatest freedom is the freedom to desire. – RADelmonico
  8. To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers
  9. Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting. – Kim Stanley Robinson
  10. I’d rather live one year with Love, Peace & Joy, than live 10 years with Worry, Anxiety & Hatred. It is not how long I live but how well I live. – RVM
  11. If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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  13. I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy. – Charles M Schulz
  14. sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn’t have time to live it. – Charles Bukowski
  15. Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul. – Charles Bukowski
  16. and beware those whoonly takeinstructions from theirGodfor they havefailed completely to live their ownlives. – Charles Bukowski
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  18. To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting. – Peter Heller
  19. The power of desire is a divine.Desire to live by faith. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  20. a life can change in a tenth ofa second.or sometimes it can take70years. – Charles Bukowski
  21. I am too sick to lay downthe sidewalks frighten methe whole damned city frightens me,what I will becomewhat I have becomefrightens me. – Charles Bukowski
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  23. I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great. – Charles Bukowski
  24. there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy – Charles Bukowski
  25. if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou,then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you,do something else. – Charles Bukowski
  26. When someone else’s truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that’s great. – Charles Bukowski
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  38. Animals are inspirational. They don’t know how to lie. They are natural forces. – Charles Bukowski
  39. Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that’s all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight. – Charles Bukowski
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