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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.

Leonard Cohen

To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
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
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
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Beautiful Creation Game Nature
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
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
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
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
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
Then let’s be quiet together.
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Love Quiet Togetherness
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
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
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
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
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Forget Important Myself Reading World
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Dream Light Myself Naked Night Yourself

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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