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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.

Leonard Cohen

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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Darkness Forgiveness Human Journey Love Mad Ourselves Path
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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Alone Laugh Man Myself Night Reputation
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love Victim Yourself
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Death Myself One Liner Stars
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Book Hate Library Myself
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Kiss Life Live Reality Yourself
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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Afraid Avoid Beautiful Forever Goodness Myself Shame Weakness Yourself
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy

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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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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