If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
LEONARD COHENAvoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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There is a crack in everything.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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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.
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