You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHENReality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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There is a crack in everything.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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