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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.

Leonard Cohen

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHEN

Advice Patience Philosophy
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
LEONARD COHEN

Love World Yourself
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
LEONARD COHEN

Easy Expectation Myself Reality
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHEN

Business Poetry
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
LEONARD COHEN

Choice Deep Love Myself
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
LEONARD COHEN

Morning Taste
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
LEONARD COHEN

Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHEN

Love Ugly World
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
LEONARD COHEN

Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
LEONARD COHEN

Appearance Learning Love
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
LEONARD COHEN

Reading Yourself
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
LEONARD COHEN

Hands Hard Sky
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
LEONARD COHEN

Myself Yourself
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
LEONARD COHEN

Happiness Himself Philosophy

I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.

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