My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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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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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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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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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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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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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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