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Leonard Cohen

You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
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
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
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
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love Victim Yourself
Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Magic Self Love
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
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Care Character Friendship
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Deep Oneself War
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves

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