Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
LEONARD COHENAs our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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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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