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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

Leonard Cohen

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

Advice Patience Philosophy
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
Do not be a magician – be magic!
LEONARD COHEN

Magic Self Love
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Hairs Himself
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
I ache in the places where I used to play.
LEONARD COHEN

Hurt Myself Place Play
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
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
LEONARD COHEN

Leaving Myself
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
LEONARD COHEN

Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHEN

Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
LEONARD COHEN

Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
LEONARD COHEN

Heaven Hell Yourself
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
LEONARD COHEN

Control Love Myself
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
LEONARD COHEN

Forever Stars
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN

Evidence Life Poet Poetry
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep Mystery Secret Yourself

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