I’m planning a catastrophe.
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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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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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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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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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