Ah, grief makes us precise!
LEONARD COHENBelieve nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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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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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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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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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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