There is a crack in everything.
LEONARD COHENI’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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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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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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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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