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.
LEONARD COHENThe older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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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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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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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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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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