The candles burned The moon ...

The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.
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 Leonard Cohen

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I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.
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We all are motivated by deep impulses and deep appetites to serve, even though we may not be able to locate that which we are hoping to serve. So this is just a part of my nature and I think everybody else's nature to offer oneself at the critical moment when the emergency becomes articulate. It's only then that we can locate that willingness to serve.
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