A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.Leonard Cohen
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
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Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a
stem.
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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