Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHENI don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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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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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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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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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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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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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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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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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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