Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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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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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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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Then let’s be quiet together.
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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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