Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
LEONARD COHENReality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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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 ache in the places where I used to play.
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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