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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.

Leonard Cohen

It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
LEONARD COHEN

Beginning Laugh Time
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
LEONARD COHEN

Beginning Deep Myself Past
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
LEONARD COHEN

One Liner Poison
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHEN

Advice Patience Philosophy
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
LEONARD COHEN

Happiness Himself Philosophy
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHEN

Lie Myself One Liner
I don’t even hate books anymore.
LEONARD COHEN

Book Hate Library Myself
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
LEONARD COHEN

Morning Taste
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep End Myself
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
LEONARD COHEN

Beautiful Creation Game Nature
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
LEONARD COHEN

Myself Responsibility Run
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.
LEONARD COHEN

Alone Empty Hard Time Lonely Myself Philosophy
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHEN

Forget Important Myself Reading World
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHEN

Lonely Sin Yourself
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
LEONARD COHEN

Control Love Myself
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.
LEONARD COHEN

Easy Expectation Myself Reality
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
LEONARD COHEN

Decision Funny
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
LEONARD COHEN

Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHEN

Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself
Then let’s be quiet together.
LEONARD COHEN

Love Quiet Togetherness
There is a crack in everything.
LEONARD COHEN

One Liner
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.
LEONARD COHEN

Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
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.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHEN

Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHEN

Love Ugly World
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

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