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

Leonard Cohen

I have tried in my way to be free.
LEONARD COHEN

Freedom Myself Try
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
LEONARD COHEN

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

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

Beginning Laugh Time
I ache in the places where I used to play.
LEONARD COHEN

Hurt Myself Place Play
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
LEONARD COHEN

Character Failure Myself
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHEN

Growth Heart Touch
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
LEONARD COHEN

Easy Expectation Myself Reality
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHEN

Business Poetry
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
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
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
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
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
Love is the only engine of survival.
LEONARD COHEN

Love Survive

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