Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
LEONARD COHENAs our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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