I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHENI told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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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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I have tried in my way to be free.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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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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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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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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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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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’m planning a catastrophe.
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