My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
LEONARD COHENYour body will never be familiar.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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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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Then let’s be quiet together.
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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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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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