It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
LEONARD COHEN
LEONARD COHEN
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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 CohenLeonard Cohen I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I don’t even hate books anymore.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen There is a crack in everything.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
DemocritusDemocritus All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
HeraclitusHeraclitus Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
PericlesPericles The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
EpicurusEpicurus Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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PythagorasPythagoras Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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