The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHENDream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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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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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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