I ache in the places where I used to play.
LEONARD COHENAnd everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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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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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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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.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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