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Your body will never be familiar.

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
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
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
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
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Book Hate Library Myself
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
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
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

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