There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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We 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.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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