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“ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars”

Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“I almost went to bed
without remembering
the four white violets
I put in the button-hole
of your green sweater

and how i kissed you then
and you kissed me
shy as though I’d
never been your lover”

Source: The Spice Box of Earth

“Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms”

Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.”

“Love is the only engine of survival”

“.. you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent”

Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.”

Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“When you call me close
to tell me
your body is not beautiful
I want to summon
the eyes and hidden mouths
of stone and light and water
to testify against you.”

“Show me slowly what I only
know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love”

Source: Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

“It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.”

Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.”

“It doesn't matter how anything happens.”

Variant: It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.
Source: The Favorite Game

“My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.”

Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess
it's closing time.”

“I am not the one who loves —
It's love that chooses me.
When hatred with his package comes,
You forbid delivery.”

"You Have Loved Enough"
Ten New Songs (2001)
Context: I swept the marble chambers,
But you sent me down below.
You kept me from believing
Until you let me know:
That I am not the one who loves —
It's love that chooses me.
When hatred with his package comes,
You forbid delivery.

“I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts”

“It's four in the morning, the end of december
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.”

“Who could have foretold
the heart grows old
from touching others”

Leonard Cohen book The Energy of Slaves

Source: The Energy of Slaves

“The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.”

“Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.”

Leonard Cohen book Book of Longing

Source: Book of Longing