Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHENI told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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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 planning a catastrophe.
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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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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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There is a crack in everything.
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