The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHENI cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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