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• they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• and my heart sings of cupboards opening by rainbow seashore but
• every statue in town came to life, but they'd been watching long enough to know better than to ever move
• life is too short to stay mad for too long
• Sky god, how long til the night?
• Proposed: The only way for a woman to achieve true ecstacy is to allow herself to be taken by the Goat God in the Circle of Candles on a moonless night
• Music that is either by the Sonic Youth or by some band that is ripping off the Sonic Youth, but you can't tell which
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• judge a captain not by his shipwrecks, but by whether or not he blames the sea
• For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
• i can't fit it all in but by god, i will keep trying
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• There but for the grace of God go I
• There By the Grace of God
• Gap analysis of a telephone call
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• Gods exist but will only talk to those who stay awake after bedtime under the covers.
• Taught all this by the ghosts, in a single night
• I know I am but summer to your heart,
• I keep thinking I'm so tough but I rarely care enough to prove it. So am I really tough then? Or does every dog just have its day?
• In quiet corners of the world, death clings to life in a hopeless embrace, but it cannot hide its stench.
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• The part I know by heart
• There is no god but God
• Werewolf by Night
• I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me
• If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee
• My first and last attempt at a one night stand was raided by the police
• The theory of evolution says that life originated, and evolution proceeds, by random chance
• They were looking for God but found religion instead
• A God Pleased By The Odor Of Burning Flesh; A God Who Burns Human Flesh, Eternally
• Grace and Fury walk with you, call each by name when the other has failed
• The Fight for Life Driven by Faith
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• If I Should Fall from Grace with God
• When your imaginary life is interrupted unapologetically by your real one
• "Have you noticed that we are surrounded by Germans? Oh my god, you're right!" The quadrennial Cologne Nodermeet, Part II
• But life is hard when the written word is your first language
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• I might not believe in God, but I sure as hell believe in the power of prayer
• I tried to laugh but my photocells were cold from the night
• She Looks Good, but She Has an Ugly Heart
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• Loneliness is but a myth dispelled by you
• She is a night of dark trees, but he who is not afraid of her darkness will find banks full of roses under her cypresses
• They call you heartless, but you have a heart, and I love you for being ashamed to show it. You are ashamed of your flood, while others are ashamed of their ebb.
• The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.
• not like the shoe and not like the ring but just like the heart
• Night By Night
• Fossils were put there by God
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• I always imagine those surrounded by time, but I walk on top of it.
• Your hands are in my hair, but my heart is in your teeth
• Wonderland By Night
• One sock on (or: Getting caught fooling around by the cops)
• my whole life is passing me by and I sometimes wonder why I am even still alive
• surrounded by stars, her dark hair blending into the fabric of the night sky
• The Tragedy of Prince Hamlet and the Philosopher's Stone, or, A Will Most Incorrect to Heaven by William Shakespeare
• Or he'll just kick me in the face and scream abstract noises and dance around outside in his underwear and have sex with the neighbor's dog and try to fly by jumping off the toilet
• You can get to my heart by making me cry
• By Night
• You will know me by those colors, deep and bold, of the heart you never knew.
• Grabbing Life by the Gi
• The Prime Mover, or God
• cruel god
• When your life is defined by a single action, it changes the concept of time.
• Playing by Heart
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• I'm not a god, but I'm working on it
• O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
• Butt's Twelve by Pies
• With or Without You... but I prefer the latter
• Skim this life but never live
• But life is subjective.
• I'd love to stay and let you break my heart, but I have laundry to do
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• I am an adventurer not by choice, but by fate
• I can cast Zulthon's Glowing Rings, but I cannot cast you from my heart
• He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms
• We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.
• I am afraid to breathe or shut my eyes but I do both.
• your chances of being killed by a frog are low BUT NEVER ZERO
• My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• Your heart may be broken, but the world still rotates my dear friend
• Do not put this product into the rectum by using fingers or any mechanical device or applicator
• The monsters of the past will be long forgotten by the time the general populace is ever forgiven
• you only live once, but your life echoes into eternity
• Whether by word or deed or thought
• Venice by night
• Fly by Night
• Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt"
• Starve, but not for the glory of inner gods of determination
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
• Music for a French Elevator and Other Short Format Oddities by The Books
• The Clouds of Magellan, so oft pursued by night balloonists.
• Making the Movies XXVII Taking Exteriors by Night
• bat wings by night
• In the movie of his life, the part of Keanu Reeves will be played by a block of wood, and the critics will pan it for being too expressive
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
• You were the one beam of light in my life; I responded by putting on sunglasses.
• All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
• my mind has long been gnawed by the cankering tooth of mystery
• You are judged by the God that you choose to be judged by
• Buffalo By Night
• Freeway by Night
• Not really by the rules, but...
• At night, when we walked by the wall, the world seemed to fall down before us - the whole, far-off, dirty world.
• Batter my heart, three-person'd God
• Life After God
• That's why you're a good parent. You know all the cliches by heart.
• Beyond Belief: God or the Buddha - who is the Highest? Part 2
• The Weddings I have Performed, or Why God is Gonna Kill Me
• Beyond Belief: God or the Buddha - who is the Highest?
• traveling the dark forest road by moonless night
• Spice up your life by attending strip clubs
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• On the one hand my life is in danger, but on the other hand, I'm getting really stoned
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• Ladies and gentlemen, I play piano, but god is in the house tonight.
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• The train's heart is big and black, but it cries to lonely sky
• Into the Heart of the Whole :: Anderry Inne, But Not Out Again
• I'm not religious, but I think I have a close relationship with God
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• Give crowns and pounds and guineas, but not your heart away
• I love you but you are not here, oh how my poor heart aches with angst
• It wasn't so much what you said, or what I did, but more what you said I did, and what I didn't say at all.
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Cigarette butts wasted after nights of contemplation.
• love me less, but, love me for a long time...!
• I don't know if these are good flowers or bad flowers, but I picked them for you
• God Sees The Truth, but Waits
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• Nothing but a Wednesday night
• i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• It hasn't been so long, but
• Life is not always fair, but you can be
• I can burn the hearts of the damned, but I can't stop the burning I feel for you
• bitterly but gracefully finding the strength to let go of your failed relationships and move on with your emotionally damaged life
• I'm beginning to think that nothing I think or say makes sense to anyone but me
• All gods but your own
• it'd break my heart but if i knew you got away it'd give me peace of mind till the day i die
• Swooping through the almost silent night with no hands on your handlebars but it's OK
• When life gives you lemons, grab it by the throat and demand better
• Dragged past the interesting parts of life by common sense and assumption
• The male libido - or - How I was castrated by the 90's
• Out of practice but my heart hurts so
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• Take life by the hand
• Black holes are where God divided by zero
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• Went to Coney Island on a Mission From God... Be Back by Five
• having you by the short hairs
• Swimming pool injury
• leaving by night
• Slowly seduced by the impending night
• But I'm a good person! Yeah great you wanna help me with this or what?
• A Summer Night
• Incarnation, a poem (or something) by polyseeme
• asphyxiated by life (user)
• By hook or by crook
• Love by Night's Fire
• Touched by the Hand of God
• The room is full of smoke and dialogue I know by heart
• Guided at night by factory lights
• She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits
• Our hearts were hard, but they were warm

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