Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHENLove is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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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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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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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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