Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
LEONARD COHENWho could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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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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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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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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