Quote by Leonard Cohen
The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulli

The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. – Leonard Cohen

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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. – Leonard Cohen

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. – Leonard Cohen

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Poetry
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. – Leonard Cohen

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Im in a period of growth and expansion. Im taking long, hard looks at the world and whats happening in it, analyzing and thinking. Im trying to become acquainted with the universe — with the part of it I occupy — and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is. – Gene Roddenberry

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Reflection makes men cowards. – William Hazlitt

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Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If youre friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too. – David R. Hawkins

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May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. – Pope Paul VI

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. – Tennessee Williams

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