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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

Leonard Cohen

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
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
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
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
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
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
We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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Darkness Forgiveness Human Journey Love Mad Ourselves Path
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
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
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Blessing Death Light Love Night
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

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