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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.

Leonard Cohen

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
LEONARD COHEN

Disappear Light Love Philosophy
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
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
LEONARD COHEN

Close Herself Power Wonder Young
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
LEONARD COHEN

Beginning Laugh Time
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Character Friendship
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
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Hairs Himself
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
LEONARD COHEN

Easy Scars Wound
I have tried in my way to be free.
LEONARD COHEN

Freedom Myself Try
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
LEONARD COHEN

Love Victim Yourself
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN

Evidence Life Poet Poetry
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
LEONARD COHEN

Philosophy
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
LEONARD COHEN

Decision Funny
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHEN

Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
LEONARD COHEN

Change Myself Oneself
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHEN

Forget Important Myself Reading World

Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.

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