When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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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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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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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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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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