To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHENWe’ve got to learn to love appearances.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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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 afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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