Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chan…

Charles Bukowski
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Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?
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I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.302, Canongate Books
You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.
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