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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.

Leonard Cohen

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
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
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Decision Funny
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
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Beautiful Creation Game Nature
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
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
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run

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