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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.

Leonard Cohen

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
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
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Dissappear Love Philosophy
You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Love Togetherness Way Yourself
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 will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself
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
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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Alone Empty Hard Time Lonely Myself Philosophy
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Deep Oneself War
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
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

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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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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