I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHENLove is the only engine of survival.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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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.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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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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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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