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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

Leonard Cohen

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
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
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Loss Mom Poetry
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Philosophy Result
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
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
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
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
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
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Love Togetherness Way Yourself
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
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself

Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

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