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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
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young
There is a crack in everything.
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One Liner
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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Afraid Avoid Beautiful Forever Goodness Myself Shame Weakness Yourself
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Death Myself One Liner Stars
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
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
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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Love World Yourself
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play
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
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Disappear Light Love Philosophy
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
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
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

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