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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.

Leonard Cohen

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Disappear Light Love Philosophy
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHEN

Advice Patience Philosophy
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
LEONARD COHEN

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

Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
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
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Character Friendship
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
LEONARD COHEN

Hands Hard Sky
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Grief Suffering
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Himself Love Myself Sex
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
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
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

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