Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHENThe last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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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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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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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.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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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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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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