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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.

Leonard Cohen

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
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
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
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love Victim Yourself
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
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
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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Love World Yourself
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
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
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Philosophy Result
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

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