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I don’t even hate books anymore.

Leonard Cohen

I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
LEONARD COHEN

Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHEN

Philosophy 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.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
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
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
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
LEONARD COHEN

Forever Stars
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep Oneself War
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHEN

Fantasy Yourself
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep End Myself
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
LEONARD COHEN

Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
LEONARD COHEN

Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
LEONARD COHEN

Disappear Light Love Philosophy
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
LEONARD COHEN

Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word

I don’t even hate books anymore.

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