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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

Leonard Cohen

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
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
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
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
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
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Care Grief Suffering
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You 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
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 so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

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