We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
LEONARD COHENLove is the only engine of survival.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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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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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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