I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
LEONARD COHENNever make a decision when you need to pee.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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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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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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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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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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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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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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