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

Leonard Cohen

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
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Forget Important Myself Reading World
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
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
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
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.
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Easy Expectation Myself Reality
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep Ocean Yourself
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
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

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