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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.

Leonard Cohen

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
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Break Up Dream Lie Relationship
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Deep Oneself War
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
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
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself
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
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love Victim Yourself
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
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

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.

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