Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
LEONARD COHENMy reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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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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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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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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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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