My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
LEONARD COHENIt’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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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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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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