The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHENFriend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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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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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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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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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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