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Leonard Cohen quotes: Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy. Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Games are nature's most beautiful creation Games are nature's most beautiful creation
Leonard Cohen quotes: Then I start to struggleWith a feeble songWhich will overcome meMany miles from home Then I start to struggle
With a feeble song
Which will overcome me
Many miles from home
Leonard Cohen quotes: I didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through I didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through
Leonard Cohen quotes: Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention. Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate
Leonard Cohen quotes: we met when we were almost young we met when we were almost young
Leonard Cohen quotes: Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Ou wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent Ou wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent
Leonard Cohen quotes: In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Leonard Cohen quotes: When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned. When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.
Leonard Cohen quotes: And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart. And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
Leonard Cohen quotes: We sold ourselves for love but now we are free I'm so sorry for that ghost I made you be Only one of us was real and that was me We sold ourselves for love but now we are free
I'm so sorry for that ghost I made you be
Only one of us was real and that was me
Leonard Cohen quotes: Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Like a bird on a wire,like a drunk in a midnight choir,I have tried in my way to be free!! Like a bird on a wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir,
I have tried in my way to be free!!
Leonard Cohen quotes: As the mist leaves no scarOn the dark green hillSo my body leaves no scarOn you and never will As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill
So my body leaves no scar
On you and never will
Leonard Cohen quotes: We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear. We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm
Leonard Cohen quotes: The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show. The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her
Leonard Cohen quotes: There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't. There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.
Leonard Cohen quotes: There's no forsaking what you loveno existential leapas witnessed here in time and blooda thousand kisses deep There's no forsaking what you love
no existential leap
as witnessed here in time and blood
a thousand kisses deep
Leonard Cohen quotes: I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against. I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.
Leonard Cohen quotes: It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again. It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame. Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.
Leonard Cohen quotes: The silver knives are flashing in that tired old cafe ... The silver knives are flashing in that tired old cafe ...
Leonard Cohen quotes: In our rags of light, all dressed to kill. In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree. I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
Leonard Cohen quotes: And summoned now to deal with your invincible defeatYou live your lifeAs if it's real And summoned now
to deal with your invincible defeat
You live your life
As if it's real
Leonard Cohen quotes: I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts
Leonard Cohen quotes: When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain ... When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain ...
Leonard Cohen quotes: We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time
Leonard Cohen quotes: My page was too whiteMy ink was too thinThe day wouldn't writeWhat the night pencilled in My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in
Leonard Cohen quotes: We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity. We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I've seen the future and it's murder. I've seen the future and it's murder.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song. Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
Leonard Cohen quotes: May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude. May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.
Leonard Cohen quotes: English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill. English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.
Leonard Cohen quotes: All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson. All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Music is the emotional life of the most people. Music is the emotional life of the most people.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Everybody knows the dice are loaded. Everybody knows the dice are loaded.
Leonard Cohen quotes: And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon. And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached. Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I followed the courseFrom chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart I followed the course
From chaos to art
Desire the horse
Depression the cart
Leonard Cohen quotes: When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen. I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Never make a decision when you need to pee. Never make a decision when you need to pee.
Leonard Cohen quotes: 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. 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 Cohen quotes: When passion diesfriendship hovers round our flesh like flies When passion dies
friendship hovers round our flesh like flies
Leonard Cohen quotes: We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky. We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in. Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
Leonard Cohen quotes: There's a blaze of light in every word. It doesn't matter which you heard. The holy or the broken hallelujah. There's a blaze of light in every word. It doesn't matter which you heard. The holy or the broken hallelujah.
Leonard Cohen quotes: The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come. The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.
Leonard Cohen quotes: It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better. It's four in the morning, the end of december
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.
Leonard Cohen quotes: The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.
Leonard Cohen quotes: When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do. When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
Leonard Cohen quotes: No one masters the heart. No one masters the heart.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I don't want to be a star, merely dying. I don't want to be a star, merely dying.
Leonard Cohen quotes: even damnation is poisoned with rainbows. even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
Leonard Cohen quotes: They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom ... for trying to change the system from within They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom ... for trying to change the system from within
Leonard Cohen quotes: Do not be a magician - be magic! Do not be a magician - be magic!
Leonard Cohen quotes: I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes. I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you. Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.
Leonard Cohen quotes: His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close. His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.
Leonard Cohen quotes: The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say
Leonard Cohen quotes: The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief. The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end. I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.
Leonard Cohen quotes: If I spelled out the Principles of FaithI would be barking on the moon. If I spelled out the Principles of Faith
I would be barking on the moon.
Leonard Cohen quotes: A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in. Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen quotes: There is a crack in everything There is a crack in everything
Leonard Cohen quotes: The RemoteI often think about youwhen I'm lying alone inmy room with my mouthopen and the remotelost somewhere in the bed. The Remote
I often think about you
when I'm lying alone in
my room with my mouth
open and the remote
lost somewhere in the bed.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece. I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
Leonard Cohen quotes: The most precious secret has been leaked:There is no Opposition! The most precious secret has been leaked:
There is no Opposition!
Leonard Cohen quotes: I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
Leonard Cohen quotes: I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I ache in the places where I used to play... I ache in the places where I used to play...
Leonard Cohen quotes: Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone. Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.
Leonard Cohen quotes: To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision. To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I'm blackening pages, but I don't know if it's writing. I'm blackening pages, but I don't know if it's writing.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I'm planning a catastrophe. I'm planning a catastrophe.
Leonard Cohen quotes: If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do. Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation. Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
Leonard Cohen quotes: This mental space is occupied and everything is mine. This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.
Leonard Cohen quotes: We've got to learn to love appearances. We've got to learn to love appearances.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.Then let's be quiet together. Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
Then let's be quiet together.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Dear friend, I have searched all nightthrough each burnt paper,but I fear I will never findthe formula to let you die Dear friend, I have searched all night
through each burnt paper,
but I fear I will never find
the formula to let you die
Leonard Cohen quotes: it's closing time it's closing time
Leonard Cohen quotes: It's you my love, you who are the stranger. It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I don't rememberlighting this cigaretteand I don't rememberif I'm here aloneor waiting for someone. I don't remember
lighting this cigarette
and I don't remember
if I'm here alone
or waiting for someone.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
Leonard Cohen quotes: To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle's shoulder. To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle's shoulder.
Leonard Cohen quotes: No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed. No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.
Leonard Cohen quotes: I have tried in my way to be free. I have tried in my way to be free.
Leonard Cohen quotes: Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory

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