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.
LEONARD COHENFriend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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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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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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 bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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