Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHENYou live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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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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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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