My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
LEONARD COHENI am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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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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I have tried in my way to be free.
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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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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.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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