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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

Leonard Cohen

Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
LEONARD COHEN

Break Up Deep Love Victory
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
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
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHEN

Loss Mom Poetry
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep Ocean Yourself
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
LEONARD COHEN

Afraid Avoid Beautiful Forever Goodness Myself Shame Weakness Yourself
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep Oneself War
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
LEONARD COHEN

Leaving Myself
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
LEONARD COHEN

Hands Hard Sky
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
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Sea
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
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

Alone Empty Hard Time Lonely Myself Philosophy
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
LEONARD COHEN

Close Herself Power Wonder Young
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
LEONARD COHEN

Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk

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