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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.

Leonard Cohen

It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Dissappear Love Philosophy
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
LEONARD COHEN

Reading Yourself
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
LEONARD COHEN

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

Happiness Himself Philosophy
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep End Myself
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Character Friendship
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
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Forgiveness
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
LEONARD COHEN

Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War

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