Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHENAs our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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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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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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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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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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There is a crack in everything.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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 never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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