You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHENIn our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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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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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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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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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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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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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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