The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
LEONARD COHENI don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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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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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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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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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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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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