To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHENWhen you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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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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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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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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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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