To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHENShe was made of flesh and eyelashes.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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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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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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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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Then let’s be quiet together.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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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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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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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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