To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHENI’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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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 young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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