To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHENRemember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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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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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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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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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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