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Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.


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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.



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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.



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As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.



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I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.



Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.



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Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.



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O starry night, This is how I want to die



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O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.





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