Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
LEONARD COHENLove is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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’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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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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