there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average h…

Charles Bukowski
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there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.148, Canongate Books
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there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.148, Canongate Books

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