Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
LEONARD COHENEuropean children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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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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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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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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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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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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We are ugly but we have the music.
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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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