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

Leonard Cohen

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
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
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
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Beautiful Creation Game Nature
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
I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Book Hate Library Myself
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Forget Important Myself Reading World
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Dissappear Love Philosophy
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
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
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
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
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself

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

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