To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHENEven damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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