Leonard Cohen Quotes

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Herself One Liner
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Care Character Friendship
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
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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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
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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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
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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Darkness Forgiveness Human Journey Love Mad Ourselves Path
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Choice Deep Love Myself
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Destruction Myself One Liner
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Dream Light Myself Naked Night Yourself
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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Easy Expectation Myself Reality
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play

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