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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.

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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
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
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
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
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
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Philosophy Result
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Beginning Laugh Time

And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.

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