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.
LEONARD COHENAfter a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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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 doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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’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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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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