Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
LEONARD COHENPlease 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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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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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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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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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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