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 COHENDear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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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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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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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 will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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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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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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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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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