Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
LEONARD COHENTo kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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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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Love is the only engine of survival.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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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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Then let’s be quiet together.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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