Love is the only engine of survival.
LEONARD COHENI 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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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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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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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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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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