In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
LEONARD COHENTo kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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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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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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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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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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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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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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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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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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