My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
LEONARD COHENI’m planning a catastrophe.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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 crack in everything.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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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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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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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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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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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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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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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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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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