My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
LEONARD COHENDear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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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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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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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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Your body will never be familiar.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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