Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHENI 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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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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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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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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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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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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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