In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
LEONARD COHENThen let’s be quiet together.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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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’m planning a catastrophe.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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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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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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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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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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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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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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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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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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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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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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