I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
LEONARD COHENGarages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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There is a crack in everything.
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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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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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