I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHENOrdinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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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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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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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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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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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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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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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