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.
LEONARD COHENThe last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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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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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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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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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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