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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Leonard Cohen

I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself
Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Break Up Dream Lie Relationship
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
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
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
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHEN

Philosophy World
My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Alone Laugh Man Myself Night Reputation
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy 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
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Death Myself One Liner Stars
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself

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