The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHENI’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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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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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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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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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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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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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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