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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

Leonard Cohen

To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Herself One Liner
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Forget Important Myself Reading World
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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Darkness Forgiveness Human Journey Love Mad Ourselves Path
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Destruction Myself One Liner
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy

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