I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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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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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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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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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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