There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
LEONARD COHENStunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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