In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
LEONARD COHENI’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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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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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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There is a crack in everything.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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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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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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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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