Ah, grief makes us precise!
LEONARD COHENWe’ve got to learn to love appearances.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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 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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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned 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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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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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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