Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHENHow can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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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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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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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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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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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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There is a crack in everything.
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