Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHENHow can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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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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