My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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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Your body will never be familiar.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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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 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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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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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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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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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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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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There is a crack in everything.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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