To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHENEuropean 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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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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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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There is a crack in everything.
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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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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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