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“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

“I don't remember
lighting this cigarette
and I don't remember
if I'm here alone
or waiting for someone.”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

“If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Never make a decision when you need to pee.”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care”
― Leonard Cohen

“Don't call yourself a secret
unless you mean to keep it.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems 1956-1968

“It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.”
― Leonard Cohen

“A heavy burden lifted from my soul,
I heard that love was out of my control.”
― Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”
― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

“Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.”
― Leonard Cohen

“My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, See how the night has no terrors for one who remembers the name.”
― Leonard Cohen

“We are ugly but we have the music.”
― Leonard Cohen

“There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.”
― Leonard Cohen

“You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell”
― Leonard Cohen

“Love is the only engine of survival”
― Leonard Cohen

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I am my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Tell them I've had a wonderful life.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein