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Love is the only engine of survival.

Leonard Cohen

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
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
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
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
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
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
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
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
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Love Togetherness Way Yourself
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
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
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
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
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Decision Funny
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea

Love is the only engine of survival.

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