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41 " It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time. "
― Leonard Cohen
42 " Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. "
― Leonard Cohen , The Favorite Game
43 " How bitter werethe Prozac pillsof the lastfew hundred mornings "
― Leonard Cohen , Book of Longing
44 " The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. "
45 " Sit in a chair and keep still. Let the dancer's shoulders emerge from your shoulders, the dancer's chest from your chest, the dancer's loins from your loins, the dancer's hips and thighs from yours; and from your silence the throat that makes a sound, and from your bafflement a clear song to which the dancer moves... "
― Leonard Cohen , Book of Mercy
46 " Kindle the darkness of my calling, let me cry to the one who judges the heart in justice and mercy. Arouse my heart again with the limitless breath you breathe into me, arouse the secret from obscurity. "
47 " Then I start to struggleWith a feeble songWhich will overcome meMany miles from home "
48 " Bind me to your will, bind me with these threads of sorrow, and gather me out of the afternoon where I have torn my soul on twenty monstrous altars, offering all things but myself. "
49 " The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come. "
50 " O master of my breath, create a man around these nostrils, and gather my heart toward the gravity of your name. Form me again with an utterance and open my mouth with your praise. There is no life but in affirming you, no world to walk on but the one which you create. "
51 " Here the destruction is subtle, and there the body is torn. Here the breaking is perceived, and there the dead unaware carry their putrid remains. All trade in filth, carry their filth one to another, all walk the streets as though the ground did not recoil, all stretch their necks to bite the air, as though the breath had not withdrawn. The seed bursts without a blessing, and the harvest is gathered as if it were food. "
52 " Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in. "
53 " Blessed are you who speaks to the unworthy. "
54 " 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 "
55 " I don't rememberlighting this cigaretteand I don't rememberif I'm here aloneor waiting for someone. "
56 " My page was too whiteMy ink was too thinThe day wouldn't writeWhat the night pencilled in "
57 " He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love. "
58 " Everybody knows that the dice are loadedEverybody rolls with their fingers crossedEverybody knows that 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 knowsEverybody knows that the boat is leakingEverybody knows that the captain liedEverybody got this broken feelingLike their father or their dog just diedEverybody talking to their pocketsEverybody wants a box of chocolatesAnd a long stem roseEverybody knows "
59 " I'm just waiting for the miracle to come "
60 " What I loved in my old life--I haven’t forgotten--it lives in my spine. "