Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
LEONARD COHENWe’ve got to learn to love appearances.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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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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We are ugly but we have the music.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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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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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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