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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

Leonard Cohen

I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Forget Important Myself Reading World
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Break Up Dream Lie Relationship
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Breathe Myself Remember 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
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
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.
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Alone Empty Hard Time Lonely Myself Philosophy
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
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
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
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
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Alone Laugh Man Myself Night Reputation
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Blessing Death Light Love Night
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Sea

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