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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

Leonard Cohen

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

Happiness Himself Philosophy
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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Afraid Avoid Beautiful Forever Goodness Myself Shame Weakness Yourself
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
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep End Myself
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
LEONARD COHEN

Attachment Old Philosophy
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
LEONARD COHEN

Myself Responsibility Run
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
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
Love is the only engine of survival.
LEONARD COHEN

Love Survive

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

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