How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
LEONARD COHENLove is the only engine of survival.
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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 will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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There is a crack in everything.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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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.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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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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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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