In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
LEONARD COHENBlessed 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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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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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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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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My 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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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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There is a crack in everything.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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