After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
LEONARD COHENBlessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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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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