"I have tried in my way to be free."
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"First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again."
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"Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else."
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"I don't have any spiritual strategy."
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"I'm planning a catastrophe."
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"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself."
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"I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]."
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"And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon."
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"If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery."
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"I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee."
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"Love is not a victory march"
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"even damnation is poisoned with rainbows."
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"Love is the only engine of survival"
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"I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go."
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"It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway."
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"We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock."
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"Deprivation is the mother of poetry."
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"I think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is preparing the heart for that journey outside of the cage of the ribs."
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"... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through"
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"Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water “you are a fine looking old man” I said to myself in the mirror “and what is more you have the correct attitude You don’t care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradise” Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude"
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