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Book of Longing
Leonard Cohen
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.”
“... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through”
“first of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again”
“How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings”
“My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in”
“The sweetest little song: You go your way I'll go your way too!”
“You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.”
“DEAR DIARY You are greater than the Bible And the Conference of the Birds And the Upanishads All put together You are more severe Than the Scriptures And Hammurabi’s Code More dangerous than Luther’s paper Nailed to the Cathedral door You are sweeter Than the Song of Songs Mightier by far Than the Epic of Gilgamesh And braver Than the Sagas of Iceland I bow my head in gratitude To the ones who give their lives To keep the secret The daily secret Under lock and key Dear Diary I mean no disrespect But you are more sublime Than any Sacred Text Sometimes just a list Of my events Is holier than the Bill of Rights And more intense”
“I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.”
“Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.”
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