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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.

Leonard Cohen

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Choice Deep Love Myself
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
LEONARD COHEN

Reading Yourself
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
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Break Up Dream Lie Relationship
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
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
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Hairs Himself
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
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Myself Truth
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
LEONARD COHEN

Morning Taste

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