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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

Leonard Cohen

I don’t even hate books anymore.
LEONARD COHEN

Book Hate Library Myself
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
LEONARD COHEN

Philosophy
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHEN

Business Poetry
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHEN

Growth Heart Touch
She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
LEONARD COHEN

Herself One Liner
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
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
LEONARD COHEN

Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHEN

Philosophy World
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
LEONARD COHEN

Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
LEONARD COHEN

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

Death Myself One Liner Stars
Ah, grief makes us precise!
LEONARD COHEN

Grief One Liner
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
LEONARD COHEN

Beginning Deep Myself Past
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
LEONARD COHEN

Easy Scars Wound
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Sea

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

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