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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

Leonard Cohen

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
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Dissappear Love Philosophy
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
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
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
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
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
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
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
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
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Blessing Death Light Love Night
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself

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