To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHENI dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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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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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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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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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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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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 told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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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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