A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
LEONARD COHENThere is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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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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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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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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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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