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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Dissappear Love Philosophy
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
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
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
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
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
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
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Beautiful Creation Game Nature
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

Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.

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