There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn a…

Charles Bukowski
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There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2009). The Captain is Out to Lunch, p.13, Harper Collins
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There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2009). The Captain is Out to Lunch, p.13, Harper Collins

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