To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHENHow can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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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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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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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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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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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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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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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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