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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.

Leonard Cohen

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
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
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
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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Darkness Forgiveness Human Journey Love Mad Ourselves Path
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
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
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.

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