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

Leonard Cohen

Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
LEONARD COHEN

One Liner Poison
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
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Character Friendship
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHEN

Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHEN

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

Morning Taste
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Sea
I ache in the places where I used to play.
LEONARD COHEN

Hurt Myself Place Play
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHEN

Lonely Sin Yourself
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHEN

Herself Kiss
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
LEONARD COHEN

Alone Laugh Man Myself Night Reputation
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHEN

Fantasy Yourself
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
LEONARD COHEN

Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
LEONARD COHEN

Kill Light Ourselves
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
LEONARD COHEN

Hands Hard Sky
I have tried in my way to be free.
LEONARD COHEN

Freedom Myself Try
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Hairs Himself
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
LEONARD COHEN

Himself Love Myself Sex
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Forgiveness
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN

Evidence Life Poet Poetry
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
LEONARD COHEN

Happiness Himself Philosophy
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
LEONARD COHEN

Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
LEONARD COHEN

Myself Responsibility Run

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

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