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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.

Leonard Cohen

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

Beginning Laugh Time
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
LEONARD COHEN

Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
LEONARD COHEN

Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
Love is the only engine of survival.
LEONARD COHEN

Love Survive
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
LEONARD COHEN

Attachment Old Philosophy
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHEN

Forget Important Myself Reading World
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.
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Love World Yourself
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving 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

I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.

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