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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.

Leonard Cohen

Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
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
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself 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
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
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
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
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
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

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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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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