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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.

Leonard Cohen

When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Choice Deep Love Myself
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
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
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Deep Oneself War
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.
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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Blessing Death Light Love Night
You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Kiss Life Live Reality Yourself
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
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
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 will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Philosophy Result
You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Love Togetherness Way Yourself
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
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

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