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.
LEONARD COHENI ache in the places where I used to play.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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