cp filelist

# sed for empty lines' remove

cat yourfilelist | sed -r '/^\s*$/d'  |xargs   -r   cp -p -v   --target-directory=/your_destnation_folder_name/

cp -RL   keep soft link 

Use cp -P (capital P) to never traverse any symbolic link and copy the symbolic link instead. This can be combined with other options such as -R to copy a directory hierarchy — cp -RL traverses all symbolic links to directories, cp -RP copies all symbolic links as such.