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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

Leonard Cohen

He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
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
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Choice Deep Love Myself
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
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
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky

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