Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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There is a crack in everything.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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