You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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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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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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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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Then let’s be quiet together.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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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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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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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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