Your body will never be familiar.
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 am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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There is a crack in everything.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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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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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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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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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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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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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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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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