Love is the only engine of survival.
LEONARD COHENDeprivation is the mother of poetry.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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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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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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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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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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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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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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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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