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I don’t even hate books anymore.

Leonard Cohen

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Herself One Liner
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
LEONARD COHEN

Love Victim Yourself
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
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.
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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
I don’t even hate books anymore.
LEONARD COHEN

Book Hate Library Myself
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Reading Yourself
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
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
LEONARD COHEN

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

Evidence Life Poet Poetry
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
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Destruction Myself One Liner
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Dissappear Love Philosophy
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
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
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
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
LEONARD COHEN

Disappear Light Love Philosophy

I don’t even hate books anymore.

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