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

Leonard Cohen

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

Myself Responsibility Run
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Forgiveness
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHEN

Lie Myself One Liner
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHEN

Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
LEONARD COHEN

Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
LEONARD COHEN

Himself Love Myself Sex
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHEN

Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Grief Suffering
She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
LEONARD COHEN

Herself One Liner
Love is the only engine of survival.
LEONARD COHEN

Love Survive
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHEN

Lonely Sin Yourself
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
LEONARD COHEN

Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
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 cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

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