It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
LEONARD COHENBlessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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Love is the only engine of survival.
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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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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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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