And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
LEONARD COHENChildren show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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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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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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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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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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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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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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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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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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