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.
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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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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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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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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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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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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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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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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