When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
LEONARD COHENEven damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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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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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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Then let’s be quiet together.
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