To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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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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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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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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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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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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