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

Leonard Cohen

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Disappear Light Love Philosophy
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Blessing Death Light Love Night
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Deep Oneself War
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
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Break Up Deep Love Victory
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Himself Love Myself Sex
We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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Darkness Forgiveness Human Journey Love Mad Ourselves Path
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Death Myself One Liner Stars
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
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
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy

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

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