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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.

Leonard Cohen

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHEN

Loss Mom Poetry
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
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHEN

Fantasy Yourself
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
LEONARD COHEN

Happiness Himself Philosophy
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
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?
LEONARD COHEN

Morning Taste
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
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Himself Love Myself Sex
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHEN

Herself Kiss
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHEN

Advice Patience Philosophy
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
LEONARD COHEN

Love World Yourself
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Character Friendship

Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.

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