I don’t even hate books anymore.
LEONARD COHENWe’ve got to learn to love appearances.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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There is a crack in everything.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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