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

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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Loss Mom Poetry
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
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
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Dissappear Love Philosophy
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Philosophy Result
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Death Myself One Liner Stars
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
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
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

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

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