Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
LEONARD COHENAnd everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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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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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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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’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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