We are ugly but we have the music.
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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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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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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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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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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