Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHENThe last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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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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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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 don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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