To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHENI don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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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’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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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 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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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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