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Do not be a magician – be magic!

Leonard Cohen

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
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
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
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
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
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 older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
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
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Love Togetherness Way Yourself
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word

Do not be a magician – be magic!

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