There is a crack in everything.
LEONARD COHENThe cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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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 bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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