To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHENDeprivation is the mother of poetry.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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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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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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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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