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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

Leonard Cohen

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Philosophy Result
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Himself Love Myself Sex
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
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
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
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
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
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Beautiful Creation Game Nature
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Beginning Laugh Time

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

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