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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

Leonard Cohen

A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
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
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
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
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
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
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
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Herself One Liner

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

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