There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
LEONARD COHENStunned 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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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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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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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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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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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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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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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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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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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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