Leonard Cohen Quotes

Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Break Up Deep Love Victory
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Beginning Laugh Time
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Care Grief Suffering
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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Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Book Hate Library Myself
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
There is a crack in everything.
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One Liner
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Disappear Light Love Philosophy
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Reading Yourself
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love Victim Yourself
You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Kiss Life Live Reality Yourself
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Loss Mom Poetry
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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Love World Yourself
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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Deep Oneself War
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself

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