"What is most original in a man's nature……" — Leonard Cohen
"What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere."
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Leonard Cohen
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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen has 253 quotes on this site.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in…
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
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A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the…
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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live…
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes.…
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational…
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long.…
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every…
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