We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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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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There is a crack in everything.
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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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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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He 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.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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