We are ugly but we have the music.
LEONARD COHENReality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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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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Your body will never be familiar.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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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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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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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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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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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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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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