I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHENAnything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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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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There is a crack in everything.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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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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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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I have tried in my way to be free.
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