To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHENBlessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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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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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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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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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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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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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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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 am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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