My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
LEONARD COHENThe cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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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.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Avoid 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.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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