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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.

Leonard Cohen

Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
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
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
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
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Care Character Friendship
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
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Decision Funny
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Loss Mom Poetry
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
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
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
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
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love Victim Yourself

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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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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