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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.

Leonard Cohen

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
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
LEONARD COHEN

Disappear Light Love Philosophy
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
LEONARD COHEN

Love World Yourself
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHEN

Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHEN

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

Advice Patience Philosophy
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
LEONARD COHEN

Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
LEONARD COHEN

Beginning Laugh Time
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
LEONARD COHEN

Philosophy
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
LEONARD COHEN

Dream Light Myself Naked Night Yourself
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Beautiful Creation Game Nature
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
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

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