We are ugly but we have the music.
LEONARD COHENWe 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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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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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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