To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHENHe knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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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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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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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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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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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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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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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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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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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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