I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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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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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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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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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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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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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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