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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.

Leonard Cohen

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
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
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
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Death Myself One Liner Stars
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Herself One Liner
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
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
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Love Togetherness Way Yourself
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
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

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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