Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHENTo discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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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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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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