Charles Bukowski – The Genius of the Crowd

“there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average

human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against itand the best at hate are those who preach loveand the best at war finally are those who preach peace

[those who preach god, need godthose who preach peace do not have peacethose who preach peace do not have love]

(…)beware the average man the average womanbeware their love, their love is averageseeks average

but there is genius in their hatredthere is enough genius in their hatred to kill youto kill anybody

[not wanting solitudenot understanding solitudethey will attempt to destroy anythingthat differs from their ownnot being able to create artthey will not understand artthey will consider their failure as creatorsonly as a failure of the worldnot being able to love fullythey will believe your love incompleteand then they will hate youand their hatred will be perfect

like a shining diamondlike a knifelike a mountainlike a tigerlike hemlock

their finest art]”

Updater: Fabricio Teixeira