To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHENHe can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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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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Then let’s be quiet together.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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