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

Leonard Cohen

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
LEONARD COHEN

Dream Light Myself Naked Night Yourself
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
LEONARD COHEN

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

Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
LEONARD COHEN

Morning Taste
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHEN

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

Death Sea
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHEN

Loss Mom Poetry
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Character Friendship
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHEN

Growth Heart Touch
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
LEONARD COHEN

Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
LEONARD COHEN

Darkness Forgiveness Human Journey Love Mad Ourselves Path
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHEN

Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
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

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