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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.

Leonard Cohen

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
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
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
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
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
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
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
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
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
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
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Care Character Friendship
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.

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