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.
LEONARD COHENYour body will never be familiar.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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There is a crack in everything.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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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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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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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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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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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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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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