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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.

Leonard Cohen

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
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Magic Self Love
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
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’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
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
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
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
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
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 in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Dissappear Love Philosophy
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Philosophy Result
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

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