To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHENYour faith was strong, but you needed proof.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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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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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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 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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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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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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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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