A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
LEONARD COHENWe are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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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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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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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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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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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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