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121 " It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again. "
― Leonard Cohen , Songs of Leonard Cohen, Herewith: Music, Words and Photographs
122 " She was made of flesh and eyelashes. "
― Leonard Cohen , The Favorite Game
123 " Your body will never be familiar. "
124 " 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. "
― Leonard Cohen
125 " If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem. "
126 " Everybody knows that the dice are loaded,Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed,Everybody knows that the war is over,Everybody knows the good guys lost. "
― Leonard Cohen , The Leonard Cohen Collection
127 " The sweetest little song:You go your wayI'll go your way too! "
― Leonard Cohen , Book of Longing
128 " Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms "
― Leonard Cohen , Beautiful Losers
129 " I almost went to bedwithout rememberingthe four white violetsI put in the button-holeof your green sweaterand how i kissed you thenand you kissed meshy as though I’dnever been your lover "
― Leonard Cohen , The Spice-Box of Earth
130 " You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell "
131 " 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. "
132 " It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too. "
133 " Now suzanne takes you handAnd she leads you to the riverShe is wearing rags and feathersFrom salvation army countersAnd the sun pours down like honeyOn our lady of the harbourAnd she shows you where to lookAmong the garbage and the flowersThere are heroes in the seaweedThere are children in the morningThey are leaning out for loveAnd they will lean that way foreverWhile suzanne holds the mirrorAnd you want to travel with herAnd you want to travel blindAnd you know that she will trust youFor shes touched your perfect body with her mind. "
134 " Hallelujah" "Your faith was strong but you needed proof.You saw her bathing on the roof.Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.She tied you to a kitchen chair,she broke your throne, and she cut your hair.And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.... "
135 " ..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent "
136 " Love is the only engine of survival "
137 " Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked By the winds of change and the weeds of sex looks like freedom but it feels like death it's something in between, I guess it's closing time. "
138 " I raise my glass to the Awful Truth, Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth,Except to say it isn't worth a dime,And the whole damn place goes crazy twice, And it's once for the Devil and once for Christ "
139 " Undertow""I set out one nightWhen the tide was lowThere were signs in the skyBut I did not knowI'd be caught in the gripOf the undertowDitched on a beachWhere the sea hates to goWith a child in my armsAnd a chill in my soulAnd my heart the shapeOf a begging bowl "
140 " My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character. "