And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
LEONARD COHENI told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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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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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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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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