To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHENAvoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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There is a crack in everything.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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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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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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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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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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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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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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