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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

Leonard Cohen

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
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
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Care Character Friendship
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
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
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Disappear Light Love Philosophy
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
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
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

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