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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.

Leonard Cohen

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
LEONARD COHEN

Character Failure Myself
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
LEONARD COHEN

Beginning Laugh Time
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
LEONARD COHEN

Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHEN

Business Poetry
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
LEONARD COHEN

Appearance Learning Love
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Sea
Do not be a magician – be magic!
LEONARD COHEN

Magic Self Love
Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
LEONARD COHEN

Break Up Dream Lie Relationship
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
LEONARD COHEN

Choice Deep Love Myself
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN

Evidence Life Poet Poetry
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
LEONARD COHEN

Philosophy Result
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
LEONARD COHEN

Forever Stars
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
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

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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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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