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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.

Leonard Cohen

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Care Grief Suffering
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Easy Expectation Myself Reality
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play
I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Dream Light Myself Naked Night Yourself
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Beginning Laugh Time
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Reading Yourself
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Book Hate Library Myself
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Break Up Deep Love Victory
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself

Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.

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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.

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