I’m planning a catastrophe.
LEONARD COHENOnly one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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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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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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