When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHENI don’t even hate books anymore.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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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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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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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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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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