Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
LEONARD COHENA young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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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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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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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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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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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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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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