Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
LEONARD COHENBlessed 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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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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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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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There is a crack in everything.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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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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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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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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