I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
LEONARD COHENWe are ugly but we have the music.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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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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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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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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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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