We are ugly but we have the music.
LEONARD COHENI’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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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’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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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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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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