My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
LEONARD COHENEuropean 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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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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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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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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