My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
LEONARD COHENTo discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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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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Everything has a crack in it; 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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