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.
LEONARD COHENIt’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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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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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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There is a crack in everything.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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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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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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