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Never make a decision when you need to pee.

Leonard Cohen

Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
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
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
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
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
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy 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
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself 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
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry

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