You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
LEONARD COHENDon’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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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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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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