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The Favorite Game

Leonard Cohen

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”

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

“I'm planning a catastrophe.”

“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”

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

“He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.”

“She was made of flesh and eyelashes.”

“Your body will never be familiar.”

“It doesn't matter how anything happens.”

“Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.”

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Book Keywords:

regrets, scars, poetry, wounds

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