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.
LEONARD COHENEuropean children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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 don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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