"It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better."
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"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."
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"This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love."
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"I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone."
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"Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog."
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"Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee"
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"Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just want to argue the matter through and through." It is a common mistake, to think you're going to go into some kind of spiritual practice and you're going to be relieved of the human burdens, from human crosses like thought, jealousy, despair - in fact, if anything, these feelings are amplified."
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"Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it."
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"Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace."
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"We are ugly but we have the music."
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"You go your way I'll go your way too"
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"No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed."
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"A poem has a certain - a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn't have a driving tempo. In other words, you know, you can go back and forward; you can comeback; you can linger. You know, it's a completely different time reference."
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"The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come."
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"First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin"
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"I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk."
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"Take one step to the side and it's all absurd."
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"I said I was ready to die recently, and I think I was exaggerating.That declaration of readiness, no matter what the outcome, that's a part of everyone's soul."
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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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"History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep."
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