I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
LEONARD COHENYou go your way I’ll go your way too.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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