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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.

Leonard Cohen

Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
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
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
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
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play
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
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Choice Deep Love Myself

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