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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Leonard Cohen

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
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
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
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Beautiful Creation Game Nature
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Alone Laugh Man Myself Night Reputation
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
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
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
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Decision Funny

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 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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