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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.

Leonard Cohen

I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Dissappear Love Philosophy
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
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
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
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
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
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Beautiful Creation Game Nature
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
LEONARD COHEN

Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
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
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
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

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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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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