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

Leonard Cohen

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
LEONARD COHEN

Morning Taste
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
LEONARD COHEN

Attachment Old Philosophy
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
LEONARD COHEN

Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
Ah, grief makes us precise!
LEONARD COHEN

Grief One Liner
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
LEONARD COHEN

Close Herself Power Wonder Young
Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
LEONARD COHEN

Break Up Deep Love Victory
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
LEONARD COHEN

Character Failure Myself
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
LEONARD COHEN

Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
LEONARD COHEN

Alone Empty Hard Time Lonely Myself Philosophy
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
LEONARD COHEN

Reading Yourself
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
LEONARD COHEN

Blessing Death Light Love Night
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
LEONARD COHEN

Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHEN

Herself Kiss
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
Then let’s be quiet together.
LEONARD COHEN

Love Quiet Togetherness
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
LEONARD COHEN

Art Sound

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