I ache in the places where I used to play.
LEONARD COHENWe are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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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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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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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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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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