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21 " This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can’t live without love. That life has very little meaning without love. So we’re invited into this arena which is a very dangerous arena, where the possibilities of humiliation and failure are ample. So there’s no fixed lesson that one can learn, because the heart is always opening and closing, it’s always softening and hardening. We’re always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who’ve closed down. And there are times in one’s life when one has to close down just to regroup. "
― Leonard Cohen
22 " Ah, grief makes us precise! "
― Leonard Cohen , Beautiful Losers
23 " If only my genitals didn't floatWhen I relaxed in the bathAnd we both looked down and we both agreedIt's stupid to be a man "
24 " A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love you need. Loneliness creates an appetite for deeper love, and the entire predicament deepens. And as a result of suffering, your capacity to love deeply increases. "
25 " And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies. "
― Leonard Cohen , Let Us Compare Mythologies
26 " How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of human flesh, the wife's cunt. "
27 " There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. "
28 " Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night. "
― Leonard Cohen , Book of Mercy
29 " Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word. "
30 " My animal howlsMy angel's upsetBut I'm not allowedA trace of regret "
― Leonard Cohen , Book of Longing
31 " It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple "
― Leonard Cohen , The Favorite Game
32 " You should gofrom place to placerecovering the poemsthat have been written for youto which you can affix your signature.Don't discuss these matterswith anyone.Retrieve. Retrieve.When the basket is fullsomeone will appearto whom you can present it. "
33 " Sexuality is general, and although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warm. That's the great generosity of women and the great generosity of the creator who worked it out that way, that there are no unilateral agreements of sexuality. "
34 " Show me slowly what I onlyknow the limits ofDance me to the end of love "
― Leonard Cohen , Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs
35 " If I spelled out the Principles of FaithI would be barking on the moon. "
― Leonard Cohen , The Spice-Box of Earth
36 " I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book. "
37 " The RemoteI often think about youwhen I’m lying alone inmy room with my mouthopen and the remotelost somewhere in the bed. "
38 " Dear friend, I have searched all nightthrough each burnt paper,but I fear I will never findthe formula to let you die "
39 " Everybody knows that the dice are loadedEverybody rolls with their fingers crossedEverybody knows the war is overEverybody knows the good guys lostEverybody knows the fight was fixedThe poor stay poor, the rich get richThat's how it goesEverybody knows "
40 " There is a crack in everything "