Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHENIf you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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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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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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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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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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