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

Leonard Cohen

Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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Alone Empty Hard Time Lonely Myself Philosophy
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love
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.
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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Dream Light Myself Naked Night Yourself
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Reading Yourself
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Forgiveness
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
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
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself

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

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