The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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 am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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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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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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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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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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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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