It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
LEONARD COHENLove is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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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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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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