We are ugly but we have the music.
LEONARD COHENThe older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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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 is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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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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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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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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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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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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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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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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