I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHENGarages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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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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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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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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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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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’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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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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Then let’s be quiet together.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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