There is nothing worse than being broke and having your woman leave you. Nothing to drink, no job, just the walls, sitting there staring at the walls and thinking. That's how women got back at you, but it hurt and weakened them too. Or so I like to believe.

Charles Bukowski
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  2. Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

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