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Leonard Cohen was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist known for his deeply emotional lyrics and distinctive voice. His work explored themes of love, spirituality, and longing, touching audiences worldwide. He left a lasting legacy as an influential figure in both music and literature. Here are 228 of his quotes:

You live your life as if it's real....... a thousand kisses deep. (Leonard Cohen)
Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate. View quote
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say. View quote
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My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in. View quote
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I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I'd never been your lover. View quote
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms. View quote
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I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations. View quote
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When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you. View quote
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It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better. View quote
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I don't even hate books anymore. View quote
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The captain called me to his bed and fumbled for my hand "Take these silver bars," he said, "I'm giving you command." Command of what? There's no on here. There's only you and me. The rest are dead or in retreat or with the enemy. "Complain, complain, that's all you've done ever since we lost, If it's not the crucifixion then it's the holocaust." (Leonard Cohen)
We're drinking and we're dancing but there's nothing really happening. The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night. View quote
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Here I stand, I'm your man. View quote
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They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom For trying to change the system from within I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. View quote
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Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear Did you ever go clear? View quote
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Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows that the captain lied... And everybody knows that you're in trouble... Everybody knows it's coming apart. Take one last look...Before it blows. Everybody knows. View quote
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear. View quote
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me? View quote
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore. View quote
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. View quote
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I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order. (Leonard Cohen)
Love is the only engine of survival. View quote
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Do not be a magician - be magic! View quote
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. View quote
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Ah, grief makes us precise! View quote
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Leonard Cohen

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Occupation: Canadian Poet
Born: September 21, 1934
Died: November 7, 2016
Quotes count: 228
Wikipedia: Leonard Cohen

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