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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.

Leonard Cohen

I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
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
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
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
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
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
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
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
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
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Himself Love Myself Sex
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Beginning Laugh Time
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
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

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