A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
LEONARD COHENThe last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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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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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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