I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHENHere’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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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 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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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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