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.
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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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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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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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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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 am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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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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