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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.

Leonard Cohen

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
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
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
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
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
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 have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
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
Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Magic Self Love
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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Love World Yourself
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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Afraid Avoid Beautiful Forever Goodness Myself Shame Weakness Yourself
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

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