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.
LEONARD COHENLove is the only engine of survival.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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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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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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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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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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