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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

Leonard Cohen

I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
LEONARD COHEN

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

Happiness Himself Philosophy
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
LEONARD COHEN

Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHEN

Herself Kiss
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Forgiveness
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
LEONARD COHEN

Beginning Laugh Time
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
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHEN

Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Myself One Liner Stars
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
LEONARD COHEN

Myself Tree Understand
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHEN

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

Advice Patience Philosophy
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
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
LEONARD COHEN

Darkness Forgiveness Human Journey Love Mad Ourselves Path

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