As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
LEONARD COHENWhen you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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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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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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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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There is a crack in everything.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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