When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHENI don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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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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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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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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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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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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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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There is a crack in everything.
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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’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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