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Love is the only engine of survival.

Leonard Cohen

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
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
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 will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Break Up Dream Lie Relationship
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex 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
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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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
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
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
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself

Love is the only engine of survival.

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