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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

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
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
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
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
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
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Easy Expectation Myself Reality
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
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
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean 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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