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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.

Leonard Cohen

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

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

Beginning Laugh Time
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
LEONARD COHEN

Blessing Death Light Love Night
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
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHEN

Fantasy 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.
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Afraid Avoid Beautiful Forever Goodness Myself Shame Weakness Yourself
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
LEONARD COHEN

Kill Light Ourselves
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
LEONARD COHEN

Myself Responsibility Run
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
LEONARD COHEN

Attachment Old Philosophy
Ah, grief makes us precise!
LEONARD COHEN

Grief One Liner
She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
LEONARD COHEN

Herself One Liner
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell 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
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHEN

Growth Heart Touch
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHEN

Loss Mom Poetry

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