We are ugly but we have the music.
LEONARD COHENI’m planning a catastrophe.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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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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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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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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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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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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