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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.

Leonard Cohen

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
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
There is a crack in everything.
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One Liner
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
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
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
Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Break Up Deep Love Victory
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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Blessing Death Light Love Night
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
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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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
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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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
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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Deep Oneself War

And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.

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