You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
LEONARD COHENChildren 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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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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 wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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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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We are ugly but we have the music.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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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 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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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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We 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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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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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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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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