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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

Leonard Cohen

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
Then let’s be quiet together.
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Love Quiet Togetherness
Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Break Up Deep Love Victory
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
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Alone Laugh Man Myself Night Reputation
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
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
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
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
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

I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

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