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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.

— Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs (2001)

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Courage is what others can't see, what is never affirmed. It is made of what you have thrown away and then come back for.

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Every heart to love will come
But like a refugee.

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It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

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I told you when I came I was a stranger.

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