Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHENWe are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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European 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.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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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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