Your body will never be familiar.
LEONARD COHENDeprivation is the mother of poetry.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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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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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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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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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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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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