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.
LEONARD COHENI dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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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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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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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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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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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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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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