I’m planning a catastrophe.
LEONARD COHENI found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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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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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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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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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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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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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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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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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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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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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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