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

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
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHEN

Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
LEONARD COHEN

Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Care Grief Suffering
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
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
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHEN

Lonely Sin Yourself
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Hairs Himself
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
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
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Choice Deep Love Myself
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHEN

Loss Mom Poetry

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