It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
LEONARD COHENShe was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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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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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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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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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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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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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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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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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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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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Love is the only engine of survival.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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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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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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