I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHENEuropean 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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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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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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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 live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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