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

Leonard Cohen

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy 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
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Disappear Light Love Philosophy
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
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
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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Alone Empty Hard Time Lonely Myself Philosophy
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
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
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
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
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Reading Yourself

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

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