You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHENGoing 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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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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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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