Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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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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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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