And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
LEONARD COHENI’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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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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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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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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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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There is a crack in everything.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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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 just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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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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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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