We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
LEONARD COHENYour body will never be familiar.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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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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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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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 ache in the places where I used to play.
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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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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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