Leonard Cohen Short Quotes

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Every heart to love will come
But like a refugee.

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I fought against the bottle
but I had to do it drunk

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And you kissed me
shy as though I'd
never been your lover

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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.

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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts

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You whisper, "You have loved enough,
Now let me be the Lover."

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A kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.

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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

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You win a while, and then it's done - Your little winning streak.

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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.

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I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

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Songs don't dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.

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Anything, Roman Catholicism, Buddhism, LSD, I'm for anything that works.

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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

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What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.

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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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First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again

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It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

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And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.

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You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.

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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

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The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

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May everyone live,
And may everyone die.
Hello, my love,
And my love, Goodbye.

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Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually.

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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

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