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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.

Leonard Cohen

I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Myself One Liner Stars
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World
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
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
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.
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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love
Then let’s be quiet together.
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Love Quiet Togetherness
I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Book Hate Library Myself
You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Kiss Life Live Reality Yourself
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Hairs Himself
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
LEONARD COHEN

Character Failure Myself

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.

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