I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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There is a crack in everything.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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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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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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