To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHENTo kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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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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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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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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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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