Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHENIf you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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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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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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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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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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