Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
LEONARD COHENWe are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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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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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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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 am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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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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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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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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