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81 " Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care "
― Leonard Cohen
82 " In My Secret Life""I saw you this morning,you were moving so fast.Can't seem to loosen my gripOn the past.And I miss you so much,there's no one in sight.And we're still making loveIn my secret life.I smile when I am angry,I cheat and I lie,I do what I have to doto get by,In my secret life. "
83 " I have tried in my way to be free. "
84 " Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love "
85 " I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree. "
― Leonard Cohen , Beautiful Losers
86 " Do not be a magician - be magic! "
87 " My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone. "
88 " The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show. "
89 " As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. "
― Leonard Cohen , The Favorite Game
90 " It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender "
91 " 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. "
― Leonard Cohen , Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs
92 " a kite is a victim you are sure of.you love it because it pulls. "
93 " Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it. "
― Leonard Cohen , Selected Poems, 1956-1968
94 " I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her "
95 " We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear. "
96 " A heavy burden lifted from my soul,I heard that love was out of my control. "
― Leonard Cohen , Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
97 " It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway. "
98 " 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. "
99 " Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah. "
100 " I'm planning a catastrophe. "