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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

Leonard Cohen

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
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
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
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
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
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Magic Self Love
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex 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
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Himself Love Myself Sex
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
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
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy

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