I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
LEONARD COHENYou go your way I’ll go your way too.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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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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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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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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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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