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.
LEONARD COHENI don’t even hate books anymore.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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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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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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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’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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