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.
LEONARD COHENFriend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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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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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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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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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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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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