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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

Leonard Cohen

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
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
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
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
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
Then let’s be quiet together.
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Love Quiet Togetherness
I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Book Hate Library Myself
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
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
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
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

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

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