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Quotes from Beautiful Losers — Leonard Cohen

1934–2016 Canada

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It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

Beautiful Losers (1966)

What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.

Beautiful Losers (1966)

Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.

Beautiful Losers (1966)

God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled...

Beautiful Losers (1966)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leonard Cohen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.