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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Love is the only engine of survival.

Leonard Cohen

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  And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.

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  Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.

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  Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.

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  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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  Ah, grief makes us precise!

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  My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

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  I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

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  The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.

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  I ache in the places where I used to play.

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  Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.

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