I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
LEONARD COHENThe maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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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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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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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 cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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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 wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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