She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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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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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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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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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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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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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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