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

Leonard Cohen

Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Forgiveness
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHEN

Business Poetry
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Break Up Deep Love Victory
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
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
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.
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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHEN

Loss Mom Poetry
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
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
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
LEONARD COHEN

Beginning Laugh Time

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