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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.

Leonard Cohen

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
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’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
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
Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Break Up Dream Lie Relationship
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Decision Funny
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Dissappear Love Philosophy
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
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
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
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

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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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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