If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
LEONARD COHENI found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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