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.
LEONARD COHENThe cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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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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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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