Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHENMy 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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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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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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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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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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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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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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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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